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Originally Posted by EricH
When a climb begins--whether it's when you latch on or when you start lining up--is a matter of interpretation.
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This part I was discussing myself. Prior to this match I had only seen refs call a 20pt for something like this because the pushing robot had not directly affected their climb, because the climb had not started. I was shocked to hear when the ref had said that they consider lining up to the pyramid, as "in the act of climbing" and that we had affected their climb. Going with that explanation, couldn't my climb start when we raise our climbing device across the field on my way to climb?
If we had never broke contact with 148 during the push and they raised their climbing mechanism just before we pushed them into the pyramid, how should that be called? (I'm honestly interested in any opinions, I'm not trying to make a point)
In the end, most people I talked to believed that they would only tack on the 30pt climb credit if the opposing robot contacted them
during a climb. I see a "climb" as a robot off the ground, a robot touching the ground isn't a "climb". In my eye we affected the lining up process of a climb, not the climb itself, but lining up fell into this refs definition of a climb, so that is why he gave the 50pt penalty.
As a driver I knew not to interfere with a climb, and I would have never done that if I had known what they considered a climb.
Lesson learned: stay away from the opposing pyramid.
Regardless of that call we had an amazing time at Championships this year, 2056 and 3990 were great partners as well. We were ecstatic to be able to play with you guys and are sad that we were only able to make it to the semi finals.