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Originally Posted by zuzoom101
G26 was a game changer in the Arkansas Regional. Team Scream (4522) lost one of their matches because they broke the low goal unintentionally. Despite the past being the past, Team Scream should probably have won the Arkansas Regional if this change was made earlier.
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I hate to resurrect the
Arkansas Regional Thread, but to my understanding you're correct — this adjustment of G26 would have changed the outcome of
Finals Match 2 and therefore the outcome of the regional. 4522's benign loading mechanism entered the low red goal three times while receiving a ball resulting in 60 points of fouls that shifted the 175-141 outcome to Red's favor.
I like to think this rule change came about due to this match, but I understand G26 has received heaps of criticisms from other regionals as well. Every team attending a Week 1 or 2 regional recognizes that there are still kinks in the game to be worked out at that point, and I'm extremely grateful to see this update implemented. We'll be coming out again in Week 6, and hopefully the refs and the FRC heads will have reconciled all these extraneous fouling scenarios by then.