[Ilyushin269]

Originally Posted by fred

there was also one thing at Chesapeake that bothered me a little. In one match, there was a team that goes under the ball dispenser and waits for the balls to come down. They then catch them in a net on their robot and then they go over next to the ball corral and spit them out. I think most people would know what kind of robot I'm talkin about. So anyway, in this one match, another team came over and pushed this one robot away from the ball distributor. After the match (which the first team won anyway), a person from the team that was pushed away went and really berated the team that did the pushing. From what I've heard of the exchange, it was something that I would expect from an athletic event, not a FIRST competition. I know that everyone is stressed getting 5 hours of sleep or less per night, but I think that this went a bit far. I thought that it was a legitimate strategy and there were plenty of examples of it at Trenton. Did anyone else see it or have any thoughts on what I said? Thanks.

I am not sure when this took place if it was in the quarter finals or before.... But I am the driver of team 11 and I did push this robot away from the "Ball Waterfall" but I made sure as to not destroy the robot in any way. They then came to our alliance side and grabbed our balls that fell and tried getting to the other side. I once again blocked them from getting to thier side and someway or another did become immoble. Afterwards there was no confrontation at all until back in the pits where a driver from the opposing alliance went up to another member of the opposing alliance(from a different team obviously) about being pushed. Turns out I think that balls were being passed from one human player to another and hit the driver making him lose grip on the 2x ball. But Team 11 and our alliance partners were never yelled at or confronted.