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Originally Posted by RyanMcE
Well, 2001 was my first year, and I can't help but have good feelings about that diabolical teeter-totter...
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2001 was my first year as well. I do have an interesting perspective on rough play, though - my team loves it. A long time ago, before I had anything to do with 118, one of the robots the team built had a "flipper" for the deliberate purpose of flipping over opponent's robots. Some of the mentors who have been on the team for a while look at it as a point of pride that it's now illegal. I think it would be neat to play that type of game again, but that's not the game we've been given.
My main problem with the penalites, and I've said this elsewhere, is that they make the score too much of a surprise at the end of the match. If the real time scorer, or announcer called out the penalties as they were going on, it would make them much more of a part of the game, and not a big "gotcha" at the end.