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Originally Posted by MrToast
Here's a question:
If you get a yellow card in one match, would that card carry over to the other matches?
Example, a team gets a yellow card in qual # 42, and then gets another in qual # 69. Would they be disqualified? Or would they need to get two yellow cards in one match?
Maybe an alternative would be something like:
2 yellow cards in one match is an automatic DQ
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a total of 3 yellow cards, over all the matches, is a DQ
MrToast
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In looking at fairness I proposed it only carries over for one or two matches. Yeah this does not make it perfect but it won't be. You could be overly agressive every second or third match and only get yellow cards and not get Dqed.
I'm looking at it from the standpoint of elims.
Say your first qualifying round your driver makes a mistake and rams into another robot partially breaking it. Honest mistake. You fix the problem and play nice and get more no yellow cards the rest of your match. You make it to the finals and your first match you have some questionable aggressive contact with another robot and the ref pulls another yellow card. I can't justify connecting that first mistake with your final aggressive to make a connection that would merit a DQ.
The truth is everyone loves to see the finals played out and to DQ a team and alliance for something the one team did in the first round of qualifiers.
So I would say either one or two matches the yellow would carry over. If you are aggressive enough to get cards in consectutive match I can make that correlation and justify the DQ because of your teams aggressive pattern.
Another solution to the finals problems could be to give everyone a clean slate for the elimination rounds (I don't care one way or the other on this, the advantages and disadvantages are kind of close to the same)