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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

No, it shouldnt. A robot is only disabled when it either a) poses a safety hazard, or b) the offense is so incredibly blatantly intentional and is intended to damage another robot
A DQ is for a more serious intentional violation of the rules, but not one that necissarily will damage another robot, or that is incredibly blatantly intentional. Thus, it is discussed at the end of a match. A DQ is an instant loss, while the alliance still has a chance to win if a robot is disabled.

So what you are saying is that if a robot is to be DQ'd then they should not be diabled? If that is the case then in our match with team 494 and team 20 against 245 and their alliance, our robot should not have been disabled (we accidentaly tiped over a robot while we were trying to get to the autoloader)? And if that is what you are saying, then a robot that has a habit of tipping other robots, wether on purpose or accident, should be allowed to keep doing that for the rest of the match?

In my opinion there should be a signal when they DQ a robot and should disable the robot for the rest of the match. Like David said:

Originally Posted by David Brinza

In Archimedes QF3-2 two disqualifications were called. About one minute into the match our alliance captain's robot (997) was pulled down just after capping a goal by 1071. A referee could be see making a notation of the violation, but no other indication was made. With seconds left in the match our robot (980) rushed toward the center goal to defend it from a cap by 1071 on the blue alliance. We struck team 435 with our arm causing it to tip and the used our arm to steal a tetra from Team 1071 just as they were about to cap the center goal. The result was a double disqualification in a match where our red alliance would have won by almost 50 points.

If 1071 was disabled and/or there have been a sign to signal a DQ then 980 would not have tried to stop them and tip 435. Like Matt said what happened in the past is in the past, but for future games i think that it will defiantly help out the teams and their robots.