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Re: 2016 Einstein

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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty View Post
That's the strangest pinning call I've ever seen. The drivetrain of the "pinning" robot was perpendicular to the pinned robot for the majority of the count. That was not pinning. Pinning needs to be defined better so that calls like that don't happen. 120 could have turned and drove out of the corner whenever they wanted to find a different shooting position.
From my experience, pinning this year has been called for the simplest of things. Defense is incredibly potent this year, but with so many refs seemingly trigger-happy to call pinning fouls (and also the possibility of undeserved red cards due to flips), we didn't get to see very much of it.
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