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Re: 2011 Virginia Regional @VCU

Meh, there seemed to be a problem with Red's Right minibot tower. Something about it was out of whack -- we could deploy our primary minibot on the other 3 towers fine (once we figured out a bad limit switch issue), but the 3 times we were on that tower (including the 2nd Finals match), the minibot didn't quite stick, or make it far enough, or ... something. Alignment was fine due to a nice 'V', and distance bot-to-base was verified ok too. 2363's minibot had a couple of issues with it too.

Ref calls with Lisa have always been fair to the letter of the rule in the 6 years we've played on her fields, and 1885 has been on both sides of them too. She even invoked rule <T06> for "egregious [unsportsmanlike] behavior" at the elims driver meeting to prevent human players from 'sniping' tubes off of opponents' robots. We asked her about her decision since "Unsportsmanlike" is subjective in any case and there's a Q&A post on that specific issue stating it's not prohibited under the game rules (and tube-sniping isn't unsportsmanlike in some opinions so long as the robot isn't damaged). However, it's still a fair ruling under her wording since <T06> is the Head Ref's discretion.
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