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Question Re: How on Earth are spectators meant to easily discern who wins?

There was a call at VCU the announcer said today over the webcast that has me worried. He said a robot (I'll just call it red) bumped into an opposing robot (blue) that was stacking a tetra. In the process of being bumped, the stacking blue robot unstacked a blue tetra from the goal. The refs called it against red, saying it was red's fault for unstacking the tetra, and gave blue possession of the goal and 3 points for the unstacked tetra.

Does anyone else think it was red's fault? Should blue have been given permanent possession of the goal and the 3 points for the de-stacked tetra? Did anyone see it and what did you think?

Update: the opposite just happened in the finals. Blue bumbed into stacking red and red pushed off a stacked blue tetra. The call was that blue unstacked their own tetra.

I went back through the rulebook and I couldn't find this situation covered. I believe this call is beyond even the intention of the rules, of which I think are misguided this year. There's too much discouragement of competitive interaction among teams. This is coming from a member of a team that last year had their computer smashed and allies that were taken out in a pushing match during the semifinals. As a spectator, I want to see teams vie for position to stack that final tetra, not sit on opposite ends of the field afraid to get close to each other. While I think it's good that the refs are being very strict and consistent this weekend, setting a precedent for the rest of the competitions, I think, at least with the call I mentioned above, they're going overboard.
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