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If team 45 or 71 are in front of their stny goal trying to cap, you better believe someone's gonna try to push us out of the way, and they have. I know that 71 had been pushed a lot from the side in order to keep them from capping and it worked. But they didn't tip, and there was no ramming involved. Now you're saying that if 71 was tipped, the opp should be penalized? So they're supposed to sit there and watch as 71 doubles their points?
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I dont understand why you feel this way? do you play any sports in school? do you take gym class?
if you dont get between a bot and its goal and it gets into scoring position, then you lost your chance - its too late - why do you think its now ok to push it over and 'take it out' for the rest of the match?
put it in the perspective of other sports. If a batter hits a ball far out into the field, and is rounding 3rd base, do you expect the 3rd baseman to just stand there and watch him score a homerun? why not run into him as he goes past? why not knock him down to give the fielder a chance to throw the ball to homeplate before he gets there?
cause if a player is in 'scoring postion' then they have already played the game better than you. I defy anyone to build a bot that can lift the 2X ball up into the air and cap the stationary goal that is not vunerable to being knocked over, seriously - it cant be done
and the rules state that 'any strategy aimed solely towards tipping... is not allowed'. But Ive seen match after match where this happened, so I dont see how anyone can say, we only intended to push them sideways, we expected there wheels to skid sideways and the bot to NOT fall over, but for some reason it fell over.
I think after this year you are going to see more and more teams who tried to build machines with complex articulated arms for capping, or ball collectors simply come back next year with tanks, armored vehicles that savage anything on the field, cause they tried to play the game to score points this year and ended up watching match after match with their bots knocked flat, and no penalites called.
if thats the way the game is played now in FIRST, why bother trying to cap or score points?
seriously, why bother to build an arm to place the 2X ball if you know you will be toppled over and over if you make it to the elim rounds? Why build a ball collector if someone can fly across the field at full speed and smash your rollers? why build a ball capture machine if someone can stuff their sky hook or claw into it and pull you over
and like I have said several times now, not a single team was DQ anywhere this year for tipping or damaging another teams bot, anywhere.
all those teams who lost out after being knocked over, or who could not continue to play due to severe damage - what have they learned this year?