[hardcopi]

Here is an example of a foul that just baffled us this weekend. A robot on the opposing alliance rammed our alliance partner and got caught on them. Our partner backed away and got a 50 point foul. The referees agreed this is what happened, but said because they were caught on us and it pulled their bot when our alliance backed away it was "against the spirit of first".

Another example from this weekend. We had 2 bots on our alliances that had issues. They barely moved the entire match. The other alliance's ball landed on one of the unmoving bot. We ended up with 170 foul points that match (holding and extended hold).

It isn't so much the fouls, it is more the amount that the fouls seem to effect the outcome. If they weren't 50 points a pop it might not affect the game so much.

The other thing wrong with this game is the scoring seems... off a lot of the time. The referees are so busy watching for fouls that they miss little things. Like auton points. We had a match where they didn't count any of our autonomous points. We sent a member to ask about it. They went ahead with one or two matches before talking to him and just told him "we don't have a record of that".

It is difficult to play a game when the rules are so interpretive.

That all said, the game itself is actually growing on me. It is fast paced and fun, but they need to fix the foul issue.

Just my two cents.