Re: How to get -130 In penalties
 

I want to say that I'm impressed with how 2397 handled this match. After an unfortunate hybrid mode that would have destroyed the motivation of many drive teams, they still went out and ran a penalty-free match while scoring 7 laps. 2397 really stood out to me as a team that refused to give up both in this match and in their build. They came to the Duel in the Desert scrimmage 3 days before ship day and didn't even have a working drivetrain, some of our members and members of other teams helped them enough to get the wheels chained to the transmissions but I still don't think they drove around at all that day. Over the few days left of build and Thursday at the regional they attached a ball knockoff that actually worked well and got their robot moving; they went on to be the 2nd best lap runner at AZ (from our scouting information) and I believe only missed the playoffs due to being penalty prone.

Their members took this match pretty well from what I heard, but it did unfortunately kill off any more tries at autonomous by them. A few teams came over to help disable their autonomous and figure out what happened (we never did find out what caused it as far as I know), and they pretty much told us to make sure "the robot never moves in autonomous mode again".

Re: How to get -130 In penalties
 

The game announcer's comment about the negative scores was uncalled for.

I'm sure they felt bad enough about it without having to hear that.

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This is one of the teams we menored and they are rookies and didnt quite know About the kill switch, after this happend they seemed to have a good sense of humor about it. Its just one of those things that happen I guess.

Re: How to get -130 In penalties
 

For those of you who wonder if this thread is appropriate i will remind you that the language of this post is all neutral and stated as facts, no opinions whats so ever are mentioned, if you believe that this is an example of team perfoming poorly that is within your judgement. you are left to do with the facts as you will.

i only see an isolated event that is unusual and hence can and should be highlighted as so many other achievements and unusual game play is presented in CD. now not only do they learn from their robots performance but so do all the others who watch this. without this thread it would just be buried and lost.

when i heard a team had 130 points in penalties, my first thought was

HOW?!?

i imagine you would ask the same

and this video provides an answer.

there is a very real disconnect over intent of rule and literacy of rules this year. this event highlights the extreme nature of not following the spirit of the rules.