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Re: Is FRC giving high CG robots a free pass on defense?
As someone who not only has driver experience playing defense but has actually flipped a few robots that were playing defense on me in a quite aggressive manner, I find it crazy I never got a red card called on me based on the rules this year. I have straight up run into defensive bots twice to my recent knowledge at full speed (once in 2013 and once in 2014) and caused them to tip because they were in my way.
I do think that this game is penalizing playing defense on High CG robots, however when the point potential that an alliance loses because of a tipped robot is SO high (30 points as mentioned before) I honestly don't know what else can be done.
If I were reffing however based on this video alone, I absolutely wouldn't have given that a red. Maybe a yellow, but that's a pretty weak nudge on your part.
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