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[birdman]

hi ppl i recentally went 2 the the easter michigan regional to scout out the competion and one critcal thing i notice was they (the refs) are extra serious on penatllys First has same out with like 123,456 of them lol and they are all afforced by the 8 refs that will be @feild side so just aviod simple pents like feet in loading dock and no toching the robot and no early start and no hiting a robot unless in the process of scoring ok that my heads up for u all ` team 703 :eek: each pentally is 10 points

[Rombus]

hi ppl i recentally went 2 the the easter michigan regional to scout out the competion and one critcal thing i notice was they (the refs) are extra serious on penatllys First has same out with like 123,456 of them lol and they are all afforced by the 8 refs that will be @feild side so just aviod simple pents like feet in loading dock and no toching the robot and no early start and no hiting a robot unless in the process of scoring ok that my heads up for u all ` team 703 :eek: each pentally is 10 points

Periods, Punctuation and Spelling are your friends. Are you trying to say you saw a lot of penalties? We kind of knew that since the first regional! Thanks for the heads up though!

[KenWittlief]

hey its hard to hold the shift key down when you type with your beak

birdman types pretty well for a bird-man :^)

[birdman]

:) The birdman is sorry and was in a rush i will keep all responses at mind sorry, bird man was running late. The first post were meant for those who were on the first competition sorry. :ahh: it wasn't that hard :ahh:

[Hick18]

i didnt know that you were the birdman

[Revolverx7]

Its not the standard 10pt penalties that kill you its the 30pt penalties for hitting in the loading zones that loose matches. Trust me I've lost matches because some alliance partners don't understand that you can't hit a robot while it is loading. And the judges are very strict this year, so look out and be very carefull afound the loading zones.

[Hieb]

I disagree--any penalties are killers. As the weeks go by and the competition gets better and better, it's the little things that will determine wins and loses. Even in the St. Louis regional where we competed, we lost 2 rounds due entirely to our human player. In one round on Friday our HP that day had one foot out of the loading zone and we lost by 3 points. On Saturday we had to change HP's due to illness, and in our first round of the day he put his hand on a tetra during autonomous, and lost the match by 1 point. In the regionals I've watched, either live or webcast, it seems that more often than not the team that is penalty free wins, and any penalty can cost you the match.

[Revolverx7]

Although penalties are a killer, most are simple things to avoid, keep your robot away from oponent's loading zones, and keep your robot and HP in the correct loading area.
Also make sure each HP is on the correct pad, in practice rounds I saw robots being dissabled by the wrong HP.

[birdman]

Although penalties are a killer, most are simple things to avoid, keep your robot away from oponent's loading zones, and keep your robot and HP in the correct loading area.
Also make sure each HP is on the correct pad, in practice rounds I saw robots being dissabled by the wrong HP.

Your 100% right well see you all in alanta hopefully.