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Re: Breaking the plane
Josh said:

The issue of being pushed over the wall was dealt with at midwest regional, by disabling both robot involved, this was the decision of the head referee, and the justification being that both robots were causing a safety violation.

So basically a scoring team that is being defended is being penalized. I guess we should just change this game to have one goal - the center goal - because going over the edge barriers is also a disable.

We disabled a grand total of 1 (one) robot at Boilermaker last week, and that was because it got tipped and almost took out the scoring table. There were a few instances where machines were being pushed over the top of the wall and a couple of drivers did get brushed by a tetra. There was one match where a robot got hit away from the wall and a tetra went flying over the wall and landed behind the team zone. Still, we did not disable them. Were those the right calls? Maybe, maybe not. Are we lucky that no one got seriously hurt? Probably. Should FIRST have realized that much scoring would take place at the wall with robots that have the ability to extend well above the top of the wall? ABSOLUTELY. Whether we have been playing for 4 weeks or not shouldn't matter at all - there needs to be a remidy made for next week or surely the Championship with some sort of ceiling.
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