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Originally Posted by roboticsguy1988
Does anyone know why, i believe it was team 71, in the final matches, didn't get a penalty for going over the wall with the stack of two tetras? It hit one of our team members when it happened and barely missed our captain and a ref. I could tell the ref was mad, because he stuck his hands up and stuff. But i thought they should have been disabled there and then, and if not that the should have still got a penalty. I was surprised at that.
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Okay from what i heard from Paul the head ref when we asked about it, and from the general consensus from what i have heard as far as disabling robots goes this year. It is more dangerous to kill a robot over the drivers station or other people then it is to let them back out and then disable them. Due to the fact that cutting power to some robots could result in them releasing the tetras and thus possibly hurting more people. Plus in this case if i remeber correctly, the call was made off of the fact that 71 was trying to score tetras and was shoved in the process, because of the placement of field elements this year it increases the chance of teams crossing into otherwise forbidden territory because the goals are right there by the wall.
I wondered about the disabling of 71 as well, but i agree with the refs call on that one.
As a matter of fact, only 1 robot was disabled by the refs at boilermaker, and that was when 45 tipped right onto the scoring table, they were then pushed by another robot which almost resulted in amanda morrison getting an arm to the face, man the look on her face was pretty priceless
We concluded it had to do with andy bakers resentment of being refered to as TechnoKittens.