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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
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WOW, this is ridiculous! It's even worse that it's the head ref that is calling the foul.
#1 - Your obviously trussing and trying to retreive the ball.
#2 - It appears your intake was inside your own frame perimeter at the time.
#3 - It wasn't you that decided that "snow fence" was an appropriate material for an FRC robot.
#4 - It was right in front of the head ref. Who is supposed to exactly what was happening and what the right call should be.
I hope the waitlist goes in your favor. Looks like you guys have a good machine that we would love to play with at Champs. If not, hopefully we will see you guys at MARC this summer.
There are many reasons to "like" this game. But, I can understand why many teams could "hate" this game...or atleast the way the refs, rules, scheduling, etc. have played out this year.
I don't hate this game. I think the eliminations are exciting. Qualifications can be a little hard to watch, but that is most years. Overall we often view the quality of the game based on our individual results. I liked playing in 2009 and hated 2006 for a long time. But, looking back 2006 was a great game...just not for us b/c we were never playing it correctly....while '09 is favorable b/c we had a good strategy that worked out really well for us.
Overall the rules, ref consistency, and scheduling are really effecting my opinion of this game. If we can overcome those issues and take advantage of a really good machine this year, I think that Aerial Assist will leave a good taste in our mouths. If we get screwed by assists, poor schedule, refs, etc... I may come to hate this game.
Regardless of how we make out in the end, with a few major tweaks to this game (additional balls and/or less reliance on partners in quals) we could be discussing this game as being one of the best games ever.