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Originally Posted by MARS_James
We assumed like everyone else that as long as your bumper was over the outer works you could not be touched, from our perspective that was not how the rule was being called, attached is a screen shot from the stream of quarterfinal 1 match 1 where it is very obvious we have are actually contacting a defense, and yet no penalty was called, ironically it was announced as an "even more impressive, penalty free match". When we questioned after the match we were told the referees couldn't see it.
I just want to make it clear, I am not trying to bad mouth the volunteers at the event, in fact this was the first event I have ever attended where every volunteer, and employee of the venue were extraordinarily pleasant. I just wanted to show what was meant above.
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Perfect example James. This is exactly what I was talking about. The Q629 (
https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/Que...the-outerworks) seems like it very clearly defines what qualifies as traversing and therefor protected. I'm hopeful that as high goal scoring becomes more popular this is a more heavily stressed penalty. It seems like something that should be clearly visible to the ref in each corner of the courtyards.
It is a fairly specific reading of the rules that defines the safe zone and I can see how it could be missed. Is the training for the referees something FIRST releases to the public or something they keep in house?
Thanks for putting together this reply.