[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

DELIBERATE HIGH SPEED ramming was completely legal at UCF DURING AUTONOMOUS. The explanation given to our calm and collected student who asked was that there was no way to prove intent. When you consder the way the robots are placed in the squares, etc., it may well be easier to tell intent on autonomous than the driver portion of a match, given the nature of the "busy" end of the field during most matches. How has this been ruled at other regionals?

It was called a few times at UTC as mentioned above.

The difficulty is if your trying to get in front of a shooter to block them (because they shoot lower than the height of your bot) but instead collide is it intentional ramming? If you get there first in auto to block a shooter and they hit you at full speed are they ramming? There was a reason they pushed the bumper issue this year. The middle of the field gets busy in auton and many teams can change their auton quick so just driving to a position to be ready for human control you can hit some one.

I think they are being leanient because of these many reasons.