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Originally Posted by Pi3th0n
I hadn't really thought of it this way before. Wouldn't it suck if your robot was holding a 30 point ball, lining up to shoot in the last ten seconds of the match, and then was pinned for 8 seconds? If the value of the fouls was significantly lower, it would be "worth it" for the other team to draw that foul. Intentionally fouling isn't "in the spirit of FIRST," and the point value of these fouls makes a lot more sense now.
Not to say that everything about this year's game is perfect, but I'm certainly finding it harder to complain about the value of technical fouls this year.
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The point of this entire discussion about technical fouls has nothing to do with strategically incurred fouls. I think everyone is in agreement that that kind of action should be penalized harshly. The problem with technical fouls this year is that inadvertent and inconsequential technical fouls happen so often and can bring alliances to the point of despair so much that it's become a joke.
What percentage of G40 penalties have been assessed where the human player was actually in danger of getting injured? Do robots that unintentionally possess opposing alliances' balls ever hold onto it for a meaningful amount of time?