[codeoftherobot]

However the pin rule in some matches was grossly misused. There were cases on some west coast competitions where one team pinned another for approx. 30 seconds and backed up on the ramp for a win. There have been previous posts saying live with the rule but in my opinion that pinning rule was a mistake. In some team's interpretations, it allowed for a disabling of another robot putting an unfair advantage of 2 vs. 1. This rule also put less emphasis on trying to work on knocking down the boxes or opponents stacks which was the main goal of the entire FIRST event. Getting up the ramp was important for the 25 points however pinning another robot just to get up the ramp shows a lack of creativity on some team's part. This isn't Battle Bots here people. We were assigned a problem to solve using fair tactics. I can see blocking another robot to defend a stack on the bottom of the ramp but to actively search and pin makes that team a whole lot weaker.