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FRC #2013 (Cyber Gnomes)
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Re: Balls In Opposing Robots

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Originally Posted by mizscience View Post
This. Teams need to know the rules. If you have a question, send a pre-college member to the question box to talk to the head ref asap after a match. That's the only way something could possibly be done.
Our team questioned the ref multiple times during GTRE. the ref there did not give any actual answer to some of our questions. During quarterfinals the opposing team directly dumped the ball into one of our alliance members robot. Of the 5 matches we lost, 3 of them were because of the massive penalties given, or not given (many of which easily noticeable in the game play) . Why should it be a 50 point penalty when an opposing robot directly puts their ball into our alliance members and they spit it right back out to them( I understand what the rules say, so dont tell me to read the previous posts)? The penalties given at these regionals are making to big of an impact. The penalties given should correspond to how many goals a robot can score in that time, a robot holding an opposing teams ball for 2 seconds should not count for 50 points. It can make a very large impact especially when the ref will not even give you an actual answer to why he gave you, or did not give a penalty.