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Originally Posted by JeffB
To be completely fair, they got hung up on a boulder, then struggled to cross a defense, and finally tried to use the secret passage to get back.
Even if they had made it, you'd have lost points for them using the secret passage.
If I remember right, this was immediately following the long discussion surrounding 254's potential second yellow card. With such a strict timeline, it's not surprising the refs would err on the side of "if any of those three things hadn't happened, they'd be on the batter and this would be a non-issue" rather than jumping to make a replay and push things further beyond the time limit.
Given the conversations I heard over the weekend, the refs were very worried about making sure things were as fair as possible for all parties. Think about the thread title here. It'd be just as fair to say "Poor driving by 1477 on Newton Subdivision SF2 M2" but it shouldn't really be said, either.
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I see what you're saying, but you should look at 1477's visibility. They were stationed at driving position 3 (the right side), so much of that interaction with the boulder and broken field piece was completely hidden by the Sally Port. I don't know about you, but I would find it mighty suspicious if I knocked off a piece of the field, lost sight of our robot's chassis due to the sally port, tried to drive forward and then saw our robot tipping backwards. I can't say for sure, but I think our teammates THOUGHT they were stuck on a piece of the field. Either way, it forced them to drive all the way around it rather than driving straight over the ball, which you could see them easily doing at 2:27.
And it can go without saying that the team obviously would have driven over the rock wall and not through the secret passage if this incident had not occurred.