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Re: Disappointing year for Incredible Drive Systems

At Lone Star there was quite a lot of contact in the the elimination rounds. Robots on all alliances pushed others around the field and there were some mistakes when a robot was tipped over but I do not believe that a robot tipping over should be an automatic penalty on the defensive team. If a robot has a high center of gravity, especially when they have a tetra in the air and a small robot pushes at there base to stop them from capping and that robot tips then there should be no penalty. We designed our robot to stack very high but still have a low CG so even when another robot pushed us around with a tetra in our fork trying to cap the center goal we never tipped over. Also having defensive strategies allows for a lot of rookie and under funded teams to build a small powerful robot that can be a great help to an alliance in the elimination rounds even if they do not have the expertise to build an advanced object manipulation device.
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