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Violations not being Penalized Properly at Competition

I'm sure it has happened to many teams out there and I am curious as to what different teams plan on doing to correct the situation for future regionals.

I just came across our video on youtube from the finals, match 2, at the New Jersey Regional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC02YOAgS2g

At 22 seconds, during autonomous, you see team 2016 (great team by the way and if we had to lose to someone, I'm glad it was them) cross the centerline of the field and contact robots within the opposing teams (our teams) alliance. A red flag is waived to signal an infraction yet at the end of the match no penalties were ever reported. As per rule G32, a red card should have been issued

<G32>

Neither ROBOTS, HOSTBOTS, nor MINIBOTS may break the planes of the vertically projected borders of the opponent‟s ZONES, including a GAME PIECE in their POSSESSION. Momentary incursions by a POSSESSED GAME PIECE will not be penalized if they do not make contact with anything in the ZONE. Violation: PENALTY. G61 does not apply to this rule, however strategies aimed at taking advantage of this exception will result in a PENALTY plus a YELLOW CARD. If a ROBOT enters the opponent's ZONE and does not make immediate effort to leave OR if it contacts another ROBOT (or GAME PIECE in its POSSESSION) also in the ZONE, then the intruding TEAM will receive a RED CARD.


Has anyone else had this sort of issue dealing with penalities being called and not reported at the end of the match?