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Re: Banging the driver station

I agree with others that teams should make sure they Velcro down stuff but I also firmly agree that yellow and red cards should be given to teams that repeatedly do it. There is a third of a field worth of error teams can have in their autos so that they don't smack into the wall as hard as they can. Teams need to take responsibility and make sure their auto works without tackling the station. Once or twice fine but the whole regional is unacceptable in my opinion. At that point it is either fully intentional or the team didn't bother or care enough to fix it. A team this week hit the driver station so hard it activated an e-stop and the match had to be replayed. Was that the field's fault or the robot's fault? I'm sure people might answer differently but I completely believe it to be the robot and team's fault.
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