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Originally Posted by Collmandoman
I think a team meber said it best when I explained the rule to him..
him --- "you are kidding right? what? you aren't?
A suggested way to solve the problem -- Have zip ties hanging down, or string to contact the loading zone"
.. what does this do...??? it's obvious to me that cuting 20 pieces of 1 inch string protect all field attendents and all the viewers of Nasa Tv who see robtos will frilly things hanging off the front of robots..
If first is going to do this.. I suggest they put a pressure pad conencted to a light that turns on if you are on teh loading zone...
Otherwise imagine this....
Team blue1 is clearly not on the loading bay.. but they aren't going to get a penalty.. they proceed to pick up a tetra from the auto loading bay... team red1 notices and slams them at 12fps..... Team red gets a 30 point penalty...
But why? Because the ref had enough common sense to make more sense of a rule that has little.. but because of that.. he must give the penalty to red.
Imagine another ref that doesn't penalize red... must he then penalize blue?
Who knows what happens... FIRST really needs to rethink this --
And the baseball analogy... when a baseball player is on a base he just sits there.. he goes to the base to avoid being tagged out..
When a robot goes to a loading zone... he doesn't just sit there (auto loading zone) he attempts to perform a task.. the baseball analogy is just irrelevant
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ya know what here is my response, and everyone can take it for what its worth, its a game, it has rules play by the rules, or don't,
BUT if you don't want to play by the rules prepare to deal with the results, i think i say this 200,000 times a season but may as well make this my second for 2005 season, THE REFS ARE ONLY HUMAN THEY CANNOT SEE EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON. so yes there will be mistakes, and yes there will be "Bad calls" but ya know what deal with it, THIS IS LIFE if you are that worried about the medal guess what you get one every year anway (participation medals), i don't want to make it seem like i am just going off on you this is just somthing i have been wanting to say for a while
Thats my rant, take it for what its worth