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Unread 17-04-2003, 07:38
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Flipping, ah yes, I remember now.

I was the alliance captain of the #1 alliance when Buzz came over and flipped Truck Town, to not only knock over our stack, but the robot as well.

This is what I was told. When we had an alliance captain meeting right after the picks, they explained what was inside and outside of the field. In qulaifying matches, there were 2 refs that were terrible and were missing calls left and right. SO the head ref explained how everything would work. He also mentioned tipping, and said that an intentional tip that drastically effected the score would result in a DQ. IN that match, Buzz got under 68 and began pushing, that was legal. The stack knocked over, and that was legal, truck town was almost flipped over at that time, but by having buzz back up, that would have allowed truck town to remained balanced. It was the fact that buzz continued topush, for no reason, other then to flip a robot that a disqualification was issued. That's at least what the head ref told me. I wanted a re-match, because we only got 10 points and both truck town and ourselves, drove off the ramp on purpose at the end so that our score wasn't added on to theirs, but it basically screwed us. It wold have been nice, if there was a flag thrown or having buzz disabled, but it didn't work out that way. They still ended up winning even though it was bizarre as hell. Nice job 341, 175, and 236, you guys did awesome.
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