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Unread 10-03-2014, 03:10
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Cool Re: Petition: Lower technical foul values to make this game better

I agree with many who have posted here that the 50 point penalty for a Technical Foul is excessive. It has been a game changer in some spirited matches; game play that was otherwise ruined by such an excessive penalty. And except for repeated cases of premeditated wrong-doing, how is it that one referee can assess this penalty on a team for a single occurrence of a mistake? The rules were written to cover repeated events but unfortunately included so-called 'strategic' (premeditated) events too. Apparently a single referee can read the minds of the drivers and separate innocent legal game play from a strategic, premeditated, intentional foul.

That being said, the 50 point penalty must remain since that is the way the game was designed. You can't change it now because so many others have already been judged and eliminated by it. Better to re-think it for the next season and consider that maybe more than one referee should personally and visually verify it before penalizing a team.

This could be the standard for a Technical Foul (taken directly from G22): "Violation: FOUL. If continuous or repeated violations, TECHNICAL FOUL.".

For a game (Aerial Assist) that depends on ejecting balls into the air with a suggested robot design specification to catch these balls, it seems cRaZy to say that the opponents ball was possessed by an a competitors robot just because it happens to land in their frame/chassis, as suggested by G12. Now if the competing robot drove around for the next 10 seconds with the ball keeping it from the other team, then we have an extended, strategic, maybe even repeated foul situation here but not just because in lands there momentarily. The same goes for balls colliding in mid-air, also described by G12.

In short, the foul is excessive and needs to be reassessed. Also, visual confirmation from more than one referee should be required before assessing such a large penalty. If not enough referees, then maybe a quick post-game examination of video evidence by the judging panel to verify that the single ref saw what he (she) said they saw.