[nobrakes8]

I dont think they knew we (1071) were going to be DQed at the time. We tipped the other team trying to steal a tetra off their robot arm (not doing anything vicious).. If I rember correctly the tetra bobbled and a little miss allignment by our drive team's arm is what tipped the alliance over. I don't think at that time they were going to DQ 1071.

I think it was circumstancial, when 435 was tipped, they had some phnumatics to prevent being tipped, and the way they fell they had say they needed some good amount of force to be pushed over. I don't think that was intentional either but something probably had to be called if 435 wasn't over exagerating how great their anti-tipping is. Plus I think the refs wanted to send both alliances a message that we can't go out the next round and be aggresive as we all were.

I also think in that round the refs decided to just DQ both teams so nobody could say they favored 1 team over the other... Although the next round team 980 tipped 435 again, but again we know they didn't get tipped on purpose, just good defense, but at that point I think the refs were just trying to be consistent with their calls...

Unfortunatly we didn't know they did damage to 435's arm, or we would have probably called for team 228 ( I believe they were next on the reserve list) and everything could have been different.

DQ is a judgment call that , after that round when both teams got DQed all the drive teams said if one of us got tipped they'd stop all defense and just stack on the center and our home row.