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Re: Michigan State Championship

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Originally Posted by AMYO View Post
Wow what a great event... One big official mistake was elimination match 2-1 EngiNERDs clearly won this match but it looks like the refs or the score keepers got it wrong in the mini bot race. 245 did deploy a mini bot, but it finished 2nd!!! 1718 score there's first. The 30 points went Team Rush with 20 going to the EngiNERDs alliance. Finial score 101 - 98 The EngiNERDs alliance went on to win the next match. It should have been over. Competition VS GP you telling me after watching 3 days worth of mini bot racing that anyone would get this wrong? 1718 clearly had a faster mini bot they demonstrated it throughout the event. So sorry for the EngiNERDs alliance 1718 and 326 you guys got robbed. I did not check but I am sure this changed who is qualifying for nationals.

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Maybe I did not see this correctly it would be nice if we could get some GP out of teams 27 245 1023 lets hear from you guys.
245's tower was disabled because the ref said they deployed early so that wasn't even a factor in the match - after rewatching a couple of times, it seems they did in fact deploy early. The race between our minibot (1718) and RUSH's was very close. I know that we deployed a split second after RUSH, but I didn't see who hit first. Even though our tower showed first place, the refs saw RUSH's hit first - their tower malfunctioned (what a surprise that one of the towers might malfuntion). It was a judgement call and I didn't see anything to contradict it. The real problem is the inconsistency of the towers in important close races like that one. No one was robbed. Make no mistake - 27, 245, and 1023 deserved that win as evidenced by their performance the rest of the way.
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