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Originally Posted by Natchez
You Make The Call (YMTC) is a series of situations where you can be the ref and make the call.
Bluateam arrived at the Magnolia Regional, uncrated Bluabot, and ran their 3 practice rounds on Thursday. In each practice round, Bluabot threw a chain on the right drive train. Bluateam tried to repair the drive train during the day on Thursday but couldn't get the sprocket spacings and alignment correct. So, Bluateam took their right drive train back to the hotel along with a handful of 3/8" flat washers, a couple of screwdrivers and an adjustable wrench to make some final tweaks. At 4:00 am, Bluateam had the drive train working beautifully so they disassembled it in preparation for Friday morning. On Friday, Bluateam reassembled the drive train and put it on Bluabot. Bluabot swept through the seeding rounds and ultimately won the Magnolia Regional.
Based on the 2004 Robot Rules, YOU MAKE THE CALL! |
Tweet! Upon further consideration, the umpire has determined that this is an illegal pitch. Lucien has thrown us a spitball. The pitch is called as a "ball." There is a full count, and the runner will advance to first on the next ball.
Under the stated rules for YMTC, each of us are to act as the "referee" and evaluate and render a judgement regarding a hypothetical game situation. The situation offered in this example is one in which the questioned behavior takes place off the field. As such, the opinion of the "referee" is irrelevent, as actions taking place off the field (and in particular, outside the event venue) are outside the jurisdiction of the referees. Such violations are to be addressed by the judges (if it involves a possible award) and/or the field manager and/or the senior FIRST representative on site. Under the terms of YMTC we are not taking on any of those roles, therefore, our discussions on this question are moot.
Nice try Lucien, you almost had me going there for a while!
-dave
(OK, all joking aside, I was quite serious in my prior post when I asked about appropriate penalties for off-the-field ethical/behavioral violations. I would be very interested in some discourse on this question)