[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by DougHogg

Our team learned some lessons this year the hard way by experiencing a problem or loss that we could have prevented.

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2) As posted in another thread, having a wedge on the front of your robot is great when other robots are trying to push you, but it isn't so great when you get your alliance dq'ed (disqualified) twice in the same quarter finals for tipping opponents. We were trying to defend a goal and were not trying to tip anyone, but it still happened. (Amazingly, we still won the quarter finals in Archimedes because in one of the matches, our opponents were dq'ed for tipping also, so that match was a tie: 0 to 0.)

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Doug Hogg

Actually our robot contacted the opposing robots high in these DQ incidents.

In QF3-2, we hit 435 with our arm and managed to rip a tetra out of 1071's grip as they were attempting to cap the center goal as time ran out. Dramatic, but illegal...

In QF3-3, we hit 435 with a tetra and our arm just after we snagged the tetra from an automatic loader. We were just driving out of the loading zone (maybe still just in) when we made contact with 435 on their extended arms.

I wouldn't attribute the tipping to our ramped body, we just hit them high. A no-no in FIRST's rulebook.