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Originally Posted by tb222
really, getting tipped over is just sometimes part of the game, and unless you design your robot not to tip over, then you should just take it in stride. after all, the audience loves seeing a tipped bot here and there (no, i do not encourage intentional tipping...)
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I think that's an excellent point, getting tipped is part of the game. The audience really reacts to it, and it just makes you look MORE impressive when you're able to right yourselves afterwards. That's always great to watch.
There was some iffy behavior on this topic at the SBPLI Regional. And I use the word "iffy" loosely because I don't really see it as a problem, although some might.
Sometimes when a robot is tipped, the crowd cheers. Which kinda stinks if you're the robot who got tipped :-/ but you can see how people get excited over it. When a robot is tipped, it takes them out of the match unless they can right themselves, and that is an advantage to their opponents.
In one of our matches 3 of the 4 robots where tipped and there was lots of cheering. It seemed like some teams were upset at the reaction to their tipping and were even more enthusiastic to see others tipped. All in all it was a crazy match and I can see how some people may have been offended by the reactions of the crowd and drivers when different robots fell over.
BUT I see it just as part of the game. A similar example was when two teams were going for the bar. Our opponents were about to hook onto it and we managed to slip our hook under theirs. We didn't pull ourselves up but they did. However we were excited that we got our hook under theirs, because that would disqualify their hang. Yes it kind of stinks but it's just another part of the game. The other team wasn't too happy with us (which made things awkward, since we were their next alliance partner
), but it's all part of the game.
Just as tipping is. So as long as it's not intentional and nothing breaks, I think everyone can just relax about it.
So I think there may have been some hurt feelings, but I thought that, in general, SBPLI put on a great display of that whole gracious professionalism thing.