[Steve W]

i was at NJ and the problem was not with the refs. I believe that they did a great job (yeah even you Stu). The rules that I saw not called were on inspections. <R11,R12> were not enforced. The flag rule was not enforced. The bumper rules were not enforced.

It seems that they were very liberal on all of these rules. I measured one bumper that started 6 1/2" from the floor. There was another that cleared the bumpers on the other bots. I hope that this is standard throughout all regionals. If not then there will be a lot of upset teams that attend second regionals.

I did not see the testing about shooter speed but I was told that it was done. I did however see robots shoot from center field and the ball was going high or rising as it got to the goal. There is nothing in place to enforce ball speed. Even when testing there is no surety that they are running at max speed. As you know, there are no speeders on the streets until there is a radar gun to catch them. If baseballs can be clocked at 110 MPH then why not a Poof ball?