[ConKbot of Doom]

I didn't get a chance to pay much attention to the rounds, I was either in the pits, driving, or absolutely wiped out, but I did notice the finals. That call definitely did smell. I would think that for something like that if the alliance that 56 was on protested it, they could do something about it.

The thing that shocked me was that during one of the qualifying matches we knocked over the team with the scissor lift, (forgot the team number :-/ ) but we didn't touch them. They were trying to cap the center goal, and the tetra was just dangling there, we tried to snag it from them, and as we got out hook on it, we both backed up and they started to go over. They ran onto the side goal and that finished them off. I was expecting to get called on that one. But there was no penalty. I asked the head ref if there was a penalty, and he said it was determined that we had gotten entangled and we were both backing off, and they fell over in the process. So no penalty. That was a shocker there. I was just hoping to get the tetra away from them, not knock them over.

The penalties and disqualifications this year are definitely something that plays a major role. I'm glad that we didn't get any penalties at Philly. The announcer got us mixed up with one of our teammates in one match, but we didn't get a penalty. I was happy about that.

Good luck to those going to nationals