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Originally Posted by Chris is me
How can anyone say 1114's tech foul is "no more or less egregious" than the regular foul? While 1241's foul was clearly unintentional, they did break the letter of a (dumb) rule on their actions. 1114 broke a rule because of somebody else's actions with really no way to prevent it. What was 1114 supposed to do? Why is it okay for another robot's actions to break you and then get a net gain of points for doing so? The GDC clearly is aware of this, why did they all sit around and go "yup, we should let that keep happening"?
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If you watch the
WFN GoPro footage, to me, it seems that 1114 is actually going faster than 1241 at the time of impact, and is actively defending 1241. 1241 is trying to truss the ball they just missed with, not defend. So another plausible reading is "1114 broke themselves trying to defend", rather than "1241 broke another team and caused them to take a tech foul".
Also, after all the ref decisions post SF1-3, it was actually a wash:
-What might've been a 31pt last-second ball that bizarrely bounced out of the low goal was disallowed, after it was decided it doesn't count unless it goes all the way through (essentially minus 31pt for blue)
-1241 was assessed a 20pt penalty for the impact (minus 20pt for blue)
-1114 was assessed a 50pt penalty for being too big (minus 50pt for red)
So blue gained 50pts in a penalty, kinda-sorta lost 31pts for the disallowed ball, and red gained 20pts in a penalty. Result: blue still wins, as the live scoring was showing at the end.
Edits: I thought the upright broke in the ball rejection that happened 5 seconds earlier. Was wrong, but the overall thrust of my post remains: 1241 certainly didn't ram 1114, 1114 was heavily defending 1241 who was trying to truss at the time.