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Originally Posted by Kyle45
There does need to be a defined line where to stop "friendly contact" and "needless contact".
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This is one of, if not
the hardest line for FIRST to define. Even so, it is also difficult to have enforced in the exact same manner every match because of the different referees at each regional. For example, in my team's past year, (which consider a bit of a controvesial one) we had different decisions made against us.
Here is a example of the blurry line. [just as a note to readers-
please do not start discussion on this case... the topic has been beaten to a pulp already.] No call was made against us or our opponents. However at IRI, our drivers were attempting to prevent a robot from hanging, and accidentally closed the arm grippers on our opponent and then released them- while it was accidental, it could also have been viewed as dangerous and threatening to our opponents. In that match, we were disqualified. The referees view it as too aggressive for fair play.
In the end, you just have to keep a respect for your opponents and their robots- they worked hard to construct them as well.
_Alex