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Originally Posted by Ogre
It's not a train wreck. FIRST has said that you need to be touching the loading zone.
They only need to clarify what needs to be touching.
I suggest a new rule:
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For a robot to be considered "in" a loading zone a wheel, tread, slider, non-retractable stabilizer or robot frame has to touch the corresponding HDPE triangle.
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Ogre, I'm sorry if I did not clarify what I meant by
train wreck. I'm not saying the rule is going to be the
train wreck; the
train wreck, in my opinion, will be all of the jawing between the coaches and refs over incorrect calls and missed calls as Andy and others have pointed out. If the rule stands how it is now where a wheel or a wire tie might or might not be seen by the ref, I would like a penny for every time I'll hear, "We would have won but the ref threw a flag on us when we were in the loading zone."
If there is not a way for the refs to get the calls "right" at least 95% of the time, I think that the rule (whatever it ends up being) should be considered a failure. And if you think 95% is a high standard, this percentage means that there will be at least one missed call during each match resulting in a 10 point "swing" and in a game that will not see many matches over 50 points per alliance, a 10 point swing is huge and will probably swing many matches ... not excluding the World Championship matches. After thinking about it, maybe FIRST should be shooting for rules that ensure more like a 98% or 99% ref call accuracy rate; and for those that have a low accuracy rate, maybe the penalty should be less than 5% of the expected average score. These are the type of standards and litmus tests that I wish FIRST would adopt.
Lucien