Thread: Ball bouncing out of the high Goal
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Re: Ball bouncing out of the high Goal
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Originally Posted by Maximillian View Post
The strangest missed shot we had was when our spy bot shot went in the side goal and then bounced out the front.
This is just absurd, and easily corrected.*
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Originally Posted by pntbll1313 View Post
... At the time our high goal autonomous was inconsistent. That 1 second period where we thought we made the shot made us feel like this after it spit it back out.
This is the real issue. We who participate in the technical challenge can appreciate the subtleties of scoring rules, but to the proud grandmothers and their friends in the general audience, which I sincerely hope FIRST is still trying hard to grow, not crediting an oddball just looks ridiculous.

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*One possible method: Head Ref and neutral zone ref are busy watching for G13 and other miscues, outer works refs are busy scoring auton crossings and reaches -- that leaves courtyard refs free to watch for oddballs like this one, and notify Head Ref so that the score missed by tower sensors can be entered manually.
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