[Saton472]

People have also been talking in this forum about how bad the refs were and someone even said the played favorites. I seriously doubt this. Yes I agree the reefing not the as good as it could have been but your going to have problems with refs in any compotion. In my teams last qualifying match one of the Refs mad a blatant bad call which prevented us from being able to pick an alliance. The refs call was hitting somebody in the loading zone. What had happened was our bot pushed the other alliances robot in to the loading zone in a way that they could not load a tetra. The HP for that team never left his touch pad either. And if I recall rule G12 and G 15 show that it was a bad call.
<G12>
The purpose of the LOADING ZONE is to allow ROBOTS to quickly and safely receive TETRAS without interference while HUMAN PLAYERS and/or field attendants are in close proximity, and then return to play. The LOADING ZONE is not intended to serve as a “perpetual safety zone” to prevent interaction with opponent ROBOTS for the entire match. Tethers, tape measures, long extension arms, and other devices intended to contact the LOADING ZONE to maintain the “non-interference constraint” defined in <G15> while the ROBOT drives around the remainder of the field are against the spirit of the rule and will not be permitted. Such devices must be removed before the ROBOT will be permitted to play in the match.
<G15>
A ROBOT may not interfere with an opposing ROBOT while any part of the opposing ROBOT is touching its LOADING ZONE and the ROBOT is in the process of retrieving/receiving a TETRA.
BUT WE ARE NOT COMPLAINING THESE WERE VOLUNTEER REFEREES. We contested the call and the refs said the call was finale. We left it at that.
If anybody has any problems with this post then pleas let me know.