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Originally Posted by Justin_302
see i have to disagree with you on this. i think teams should be able to stop an offensive robot. i think the ramming rule a little harsh because teams should be building their robot for a little abuse, but a full power ram should not be able to fly. i do not agree with the tipping rule. the head ref at ypsi told us if we picked a robot up even an inch, we would be penalized. i understand that tipping is against gracious professionalism, which is why when a robot started to tip, we backed off...but it makes me wonder why the rules are so strict this year
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The rules about tipping are so strict this year because you have 6 human players running around the border of the field and then you have 2 first volunteers reloading the autoload stations. What if your team tipped over a robot and it almost fell onto one of these people? Don't you think the safety of yours and other team members is worth the strict rules?
It might be just me though. At the Great Lakes regional our team was the target of many "defensive strategies". I know of atleast 2 or 3 matches where our robot was double teamed by robots and pinned and pushed around. Now luckily we were usually faster and able to outmanuever these teams so not much damage could be done, but it got old really fast when we had hoped that most teams would stick to offense. Heck, we were even getting pushed around and blocked during the practice matches on thursday.