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Originally Posted by Cory
I still don't understand why people are complaining about penalties. How hard is it to stay the heck away from a robot that's in a loading zone?
It absolutely baffles me that after four months of knowing that you WILL get a penalty if you hit someone in the loading zone, people still haven't figured out that you don't push a robot that's loading.
As I said before, and I'll say again, it's really not that hard to avoid penalties.
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While at the regionals, I think many of the penalties could have been avoided, however at nationals, I noticed a major decrease in penalties, however, they still played a major role. And many of those penalties were mostly incidental / accidental, but nonetheless they still occurred. Attached is a 30pt penalty on our team because we collided with another team, which then hit a tetra, which then hit a robot in a human load zone. We still won the match and wouldn't urgue the call anyways, it interfered with them loading. I think the whole loading zone issue this year caused a lot of grief, they're may have been a different solution. I also noticed the youngsters working near the auto loaders almost getting clobbered every match. I wouldn't want my youngster that close to some of those robots.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Suggestions for next year-
*Another big peeve of mine was the fact that rankings were never shown on the field throughout the weekend at nationals, or any of the three regionals I attended, unlike previous years. PLEASE start doing this again. Having to walk all the way to the pits to see the rankings is fairly annoying, and impossible if you're volunteering on the field.
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ABSOLUTELY!!!