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Originally Posted by BJT
I dont remember the match or teams involved, but at wisconsin, the outcome of an elimination match was changed by 100 points in fouls. In my opinion for there to be 100 points in fouls, there should be no doubt in anyones mind what happened. For 100 foul points there should be a fire, a bloody finger on the field, or something obvious. The reality is 3 kids in the question box wondering what the hell happened. That sucks.
This game could have been one of the best.
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This was us. Quaters 2, Match 3 at Wisconsin. We are in the pits already, rushing to replace popped rivets on our shooter so we can go play semis thinking we won, and then pops up the score... Us and our alliance partner across from us in the pits just drop everything and stare at the screen from the pits with our mouths wide open. We are in shock.. We ended up losing by 9 points after 100 foul points given to the opposing alliance (final score 197 to 188). We had almost doubled the opposing teams score, and yet, get sent packing. I look forward to seeing some video of this as for sure, the possession penalty is very debatable as it looked like a single bump of the ball to me from the stands. I don't know the details of the 2nd penalty, I never saw it watching the match. Also add in no call for isolation on the opposing alliance for parking to prevent pickup of a ball in the corner of the 1 point goal and wall for what seemed like an eternity, this was a very tough loss.
Rewind to Centrail IL regional. Again, 3rd match in the quarter finals. We are up and basically have the match won due to some tough defense. Opposing alliance throws a truss shot towards the end of the match that falls in a robot on our alliance. They quickly spit it out, but still, 50 point penalty. We end up losing by 5 points (133 to 128). Thus, we were up by 45 before the penalty that was in no way intentional. Some of you may have seen what our lift cylinders looked like after this match, we were damaged beyond repair inside our frame after this match, no calls as such.
Thus, our season is over losing twice in quarterfinals by technicals that really had very little impact on the match in which we had a quite large lead while knowing additional penalties were missed.
Do I hate the game? No, we've had a blast playing it this year. The strategy involved in the game is complex and very interesting. Is the game perfect? Far from it. Can these imperfections be fixed at this point, probably not. Just enjoy it while you can, because before you know it, you'll be packing up your robot preparing for next year longing to put your previous years robot on the field 1 more time like always.