The 30 point penalty was assessed to team 510 (on our alliance with 616 and 1610) because their robot touched another robot in a loading zone.
But after team 539 tipped 616 in the loading zone (same match - score would have ended up 0-0), one of the Head Refs (Lisa) that was watching it would not call a penalty on the blue alliance for this. From her point of view, 616 was placing a tetra on the center-left goal (when looking at it from the red side of the field)- which is true. 539 came up on the right sode of our robot and pushed us sideways into the side wall-which also is true. But, while 539 was pushing us sideways, I drove intentionally drove backwards to get into the "safe zone" of the loading station. Lisa said that it looked like they pushed us backwards into the loading station but there was no possible way for that to happen as they were pushing our robot from the side, not the front. We argued this call into and after the next match but Lisa would not change her mind.
http://www.virginiafirst.org/2005/elim_rounds_final.jpg - Elimination Chart