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Re: Are The Penalties Too High?
The penalties are part of the game.
In qualifying rounds, our alliances steered clear of the far side of the field except to try and score a tetra on their home zone and we received no penalties.
In semi-final 1, match one we did not steer clear and 217 and 340 (same team) got tangled up near the opponents blue human loading zone. 340 was running blocker and we were trying to cap the far goal. In our collision we (either 340 or 217, too close to tell) touched 1507 while they were in the human loading zone. We received the 30 pointer and got the loss.
Was I upset? Yes. Was it our own fault? Yes. Do I blame the rules? Nope.
My advice for teams who have not played yet: stay clear from your opponents loading zones. If you must race to their side of the field to score or defend, pay very close attention to the loading zones. If you go to the other side of the field and touch someone in the loading zone don't complain about the penalties being too high. Work within the scoring and rules given.
At FLR, the most common penalty was human player related. The human player foot foul was called the most. We never received a penalty for not being in the auto load zone while receiving a tetra and very few teams did on competition day. What I did notice were teams trying the auto loader on practice day and noticing that they had a hard time getting in the zone. On Friday, those teams were loading from the human loading station.
This game is designed to be offensive, thus the 30 pointer for messing with teams loading. Safety is also a consideration, but not the only one.
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