Thread: On Rules, Referees, and Rewards (aka Penalties)
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Re: On Rules, Referees, and Rewards (aka Penalties)
Ryan,

On the whole I agree with you. Personally I like how the penalties were designed this year.

In a perfect world everyone would read the rules, design a robot to stay within their confines, teach the drivers to drive within them, and everyone would be fine and dandy. Their would be the occasional "oops I bumped you I the loading zone, sorry" but everyone would try very hard not too and the penalties could be completely ignored..

But sadly we live in no such world. If some one were to design good rules for everyone to follow but they had no bite to them (the penalties) sadly I believe few people would abide by them.

Personally I do believe that the penalties were a tad harsh. If I were designing the rules I would make the 10point a 6point and the 30 a 15. I think with such penalties everyone still would have gone to the same amount of trouble to stay within the bounds of the rules.

Try to remember, the penalties are more intended to give you incentive to stay within the rules in the first place rather than actually punish you.

But maybe I just a crazy lunatic who stays up till 3am writing on CD. Dang it, at least half of that is true...
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