[Dan 550]

I think that the disqualification of team 529 and their alliance partner, team 102, in match 27 at the Johnson & Johnson Mid-Atlantic Regional was justified. From the four people on each team on the field, one is a mentor, allowed to touch but not throw balls and allowed to observe the field and control system but not interact with these. The operators are intended to manipulate the robot and only that. And the human player is intended to move the balls from the alliance area to the field. This is what FIRST assumes that most teams will do anyway, so it's an interpretable rule. Anyway, that really cool volunteer that everybody checked in with on the red side was saying all day long that the judges were going to enforce that only one person from each team throws and the mentor can definitely not throw, so you had fair warning. Anyway, congrats on getting to the quarter-finals.