If the robot never starts, thn it proabably isnt the ref because they only shut pff robots who might damage the playing field, are a hazard, or violate some rule in some way.

I actually did not see as many malfunctions in robots this year, as i did last year. Lots of times last year, robots could even get to the other side of the field because of one problem or another. This year, i think most robots started, although is saw some that died after get hit or, like we had some power problems. But those are mostly problems that are easily fixed, like ours was

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At buckeye during the finals we hit the goals kind of crooked and instead of our arm hitting the goal the corner of our bot did at about 10-11ft/s. Well needless to say we didn't switch to low soon enough and the sudden jolt from 11 to 0 ft/s flipped our breaker since it is mounted horizontal in the front corner of our bot. Thankfully that was the only match we lost in the finals, but after that our driver was extremely careful. We plan on fixing that this thursday at Ypsi. See you there.