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Originally Posted by David66
A percentage of these "flippings" are intentional. I know because we were the subject to one such attempt. We were in the middle of a qualifying match when another robot strolled next to us and lifted a 3 foot arm under our robot, flipping us forward. I thought it was just an akward collission until after the match when i was shown video footage as well as digital pictures of this arm going under our robot, then raising in an attempt to flip us (i say attempt because we have a phenomenal arm operator who was able use the arm and a mobil goal to save us). I am very curious as to what other function this arm serves and intend on checking things out at our next regional. i also plan on checking to see if this team has treated other teams in this way. if they have, i intend on conforonting the referees about it. this behaviour is very unFIRST. Perhaps the team does not realize this, as many teams are fairly new and dont have the "FIRST thing" figured out yet. I do however hope that they will realize that their actions are hurtful, and somewhat resented.
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Be careful about asking about the arm, most teams do have arms to either hang or manuevre the big ball. We have an arm for hanging although thanks to our arm operator, we have used it to flip ourselves back-up. Just to anyone out there, keep an eye on team 341's arm operator, he is really fantastic at flipping us back up with the arm if we've been flipped. We had this one match at Nats last year I think, we were flipped with like 10-15 secs left, we were flipped, but we flipped back up and then our driver (also very good) got us back onto the ramp and got us 25 pts just as time expired. Great moment. But anyway, arms do have a whole lot of functions so be careful what you say to various teams.