[petek]

I still maintain it is the robot driver's and referee's actions which should be dealt with, not the physical design of the robot. This year's game may have emphasized the issue because of high CGs.

The problem I saw this year was inconsistent refereeing. Between regionals and even between ends of the field at Atlanta, I saw cases where blatant battlebot defense resulted in robots being tipping without penalty, contrasted with robots being penalized when another robot fell over after running into them (where the penalized team was clearly blameless from my perspective).

To me, this says that FIRST needs to do a better job of making the rules clear and ensuring that the referees fully understand the letter and intent of those rules.