[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

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.

In the case we experienced, we were rammed by a fast robot which was pre-aimed to intersect the path we normally took to shoot balls at the high goal. The collision bent our 1/4 inch aluminum side panel. Our lesson was that we need bumpers on our robot, which we have added. However the rules may be interpreted in the future, something similar could happen, so our top priority was to protect our robot from further damage.

Our match in question was an early match on Friday, and hearing George 1902's experience, things were called differently later during the UCF event.