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Re: Lessons learned 2005: The negative

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Originally Posted by xzvrw2
It is not the fact that there where 30 pt penalties for hitting the robot in the loading zone, it was the inconsistency that really needs to change. One match a penalty would get called, and the next match it would happen again and it didn't get called. I think that the consistency of the calls should be changed not so much as the penalties them selves.
I think the inconsistency, in part, is driven by the volume of penalties that needed to be managed, as well as the complexity needed to explain each condition. The penalties need to be reduced to a small set of observable outcomes that serve to increase the safety and sportsmanship of gameplay. Many of the things for which penalties were issued (e.g. touching the loading zone with the predefined section of the robot) seemed arbitrary in nature.