[Ianworld]

I think the field should be scored after everything has stopped moving. Thats the way it always has been. If that wasn't the case, then last year hanging robots wouldn't need locking mechanisms or anything else of the sort. I remember a team that had all their pneumatics on single solienoids that defaulted to pulling the robot up and hanging. That was always counted. In 2002 robot after robot would coast into the endzone and it would be counted.

I don't know why it has been changed this year. It doesn't make sense. Its much harder to score the game right when it ends than the field at rest. The robot which caps a tetra after the match ends should get the point as long as it isn't touching it at the end.

Now as for touching a tetra that was already capped when the match ends probably means it shouldn't be capped. That was the way it has been. It doesn't make sense in terms of what counts, but it does for ease of scoring in the same way that the judges should be scoring the match after all the robots stop moving.