I think Joe was right on the money when he said that Refs should go on inspection. Or they should at least walk around together and ask questions of a robot that has any questionable features whatsoever. There is no doubt that wedges are gonna come under alot of scrutiny after this season.
Our reasoning for going for a wedge was after hearing and thinking about "wall bots" we felt we needed to make a wall remover. Of course naturally it became a great defensive asset as it made robots think twice about going straight at us due to the fact that they could ride up on us easily. However, we always stressed to our drivers to not lift the wedge if a robot was riding up on us in fear of exactly what happened to 121. Perception is everything to refs, and what they saw was movement of the hood of the 121 robot, and that is what they called the tipping for, eventhough 121 did not lift the hood with the intention to tip us.
When looking at all the evidence, and seeing the matches, there is no doubt that there needs to be some sort of clarification on this for next year....kinda funny when you think about it too...last time there was a tipping debate in FIRST, it revolved around the famous tipping mechanism of team 121 in 1997! Maybe you guys should just like drop an anchor on other robots or something so you can avoid all this tipping controversy!!!
Thank you for being good sports guys, I look forward to working in the future with ya.
Congrats!
Andy Grady