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Re: San Diego: Tech Foul in Finals

What is hardest for me is that many other obvious fouls occurred and were not called or even considered after the match had ended.

Within the first 30 seconds of the match our belt, which drives our intake rollers, was snapped off due to 330's intake being extended. This was obviously unintentional yet it caused us to not be able to pick up off of the ground for the rest of the match. No foul was called.

Image of when 330's intake snapped our belt:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1LW...9FN3I0NXc/edit

Image of our belt dragging on the ground:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1L...it?usp=sharing

Later in the match 1266 was heavy defense on 987; however, they drove up onto 987 for a solid 4-5 seconds making obvious contact inside their frame perimeter.

Image of 1266 on top of 987:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1L...it?usp=sharing

Both cases were protrusions into other robot's frame perimeters and one caused major damage to our robot causing us not be able to score for the rest of the match. When we went to the question box after the match with video evidence of what had happened we were told that the match score would not be reconsidered. It just confuses me how in such an important match the refs made such a controversial call yet didn't make any calls on two such obvious fouls...

I only post this in order to provide feedback to refs and any FIRST employees that may read this response. As my teammates have already said, congrats to the winning alliance.
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