[Rangel]

This story reminds me of what happened to us and our alliance for the Newton division 2011. Us, bomb squad and rush had our first quarterfinal won thanks to the minibot race when we noticed our tower was disabled. The refs had been saying in qualifications that we were deploying very close to the line so we lowered the deployment by an inch or two to ensure we weren't above the line. As it turns out, CNN was doing a story on us and the camera man comes over with video showing we weren't above the line. However, we were aware no video was allowed so we ended up taking the loss and didn't deploy our minibot the next match for fear of getting the penalty again and ultimately had Rush race who unfortunately wasn't fast enough to win the race. That year stings a bit since it was arguably our team's best robot but we've moved past it long ago. Later the ref who disabled the tower approached us and apologized if in case he made the wrong call. Sometimes calls are good and some are bad. It does happen and I hope you guys are able to move on from it.