[dhitchco]

Something to think about for a future game:

The only party that can assess a penalty in the game is the floor judge(s). With six robots on the field, it will take pretty sharp eyes to watch each robot for any offensive penalizable move.

In other sports (e.g. sailboat racing) a lot of things go on outside the view of anyone except the two parties involved.

So....maybe we allow the driver (or teammates behind the line) to fly a "protest flag". As an example, if an enemy robot is "sitting" on my robot's grab arm on purpose, but not seen by the judges, I might fly a protest flag.

After the match as time penalties are assessed, if I win my protest, I get the benefit of my intentions. However, if I falsely raise a protest and then "lose" the protest, the penalty is against me. So, you don't want to be flagging a protest just for fun; it has repercussions.

Anyways, just like football......stuff happens....and it will continue to happen.

Oh, by the way, the words "GRACIOUS PROFESSIONALISM" keep haunting me.