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Originally Posted by martin417
In at least one match, the robot that lost the bumper continued to play, and was scored as being on the batter at the end, even though their bumper was halfway across the field. They won that match by 5 points. It appears to me that the refs give a break to newer or "non powerhouse" teams, and enforce the rules harshly on more established, better built, or "powerhouse" teams.
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I haven't seen the video but having volunteered at the scoring table before at different regionals, I can say that it takes awhile to disable a robot. First the refs have to see it, then communicate the call to the head ref, the head ref will want to confirm that the bumper is off, then they will communicate to the scoring table to disable a specific robot, the scoring table has to find that robot in the computer, and finally that robot will be disabled. All of this can take sometime. If bumpers fell off of my robot and I knew it would be disabled, I would definitely try to get on the batter before I was disabled. I couldn't find anything in the rule book that allows the refs to retroactively take back points in a case where you weren't disabled fast enough.
If that is what happened, I would consider that very smart gameplay by that team.