[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

A detail that needs to be ironed out is the quantity of yellow cards. Karthik brings up a good point above, with the idea of getting cleared yellow card status for the elimination rounds. I would vote against the idea, for 2 reasons:

1. getting cleared status for the finals lessens the severity of a yellow card
2. while there is no penalty for a yellow card in a qualification match, it WILL make an impact on the decisions of a picking team: "should we pick team A or B? they both are good... but team B got a yellow card... hmmmm"

Here's a question that doesn't have an inherently obvious answer, at least for me. If a team earns a red card and gets disqualified, are they disqualified for any subsequent yellow cards? Since two yellow cards merits a dq, it seems only natural that a red followed by a yellow, would also merit a dq. (A second one in this case)

The cumulative nature of these cards will definitely make teams think twice come alliance selection time. Are we sure this is what we want? Let me give an example.

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

1 yellow card was given team B for grabbing another teams drive base and not letting go (they probably did not mean to do it, but it happened)

From the described situation, although it was accidental, a yellow card was clearly merited. The thing is, this action was an honest mistake. I don't want to end up with a situation, where a picking team sees a yellow card in the standings, and says "oh they're too risky of a pick, let's skip them", especially when the card meriting action was accidental.

I don't want to diminish the value of yellow cards to the point where they're mere slaps on the proverbial wrist, but I also don't want to see an accident, or a single poor decision by a 16 year old driver keep teams out of the elimination rounds.