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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
If the robot were to right itself, and then continue to play, I could not imagine a referee calling a red card based on damage occurring.
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To me strategies aimed at disabling or damaging opponents need to be met with the harshest penalty possible. If I wanted to play battlebots I WOULD (I do want to, I might in the future) but FRC isn't the place for that.
You'd be ok with a team flipping team A, team A self righting (prolly takes a couple seconds) then that same team flipping team A again repeatedly without a red card? The strategy is CLEARLY aimed at disabling or damaging A. And every time that team A goes over there's a risk of damage.
I am a firm believer in Vex's rule that (paraphrased) gives the offensive teams the benefit of the doubt in any interaction. Face it, we get the game play we encourage - if we don't penalize teams playing extremely aggressive defense more teams will realize it's a good way to shut down scoring robots and, frankly, games will get BORING. (see 2003)