[nehalita]

One thing I noticed wasn't called was penalties due to contact outside of the 28x38x60 area (aka due to extensions).

Personally, I think there are just too many things to fully take account of when there are 6 robots on the field, making contact, and doing their own thing.

I'm sure every team has their story of a time that a penalty was not called that could have changed the match or an error occurred that wasn't their fault (ex: one team's switch was pushed somehow when a robot went full speed into the lexan and they couldn't operate their robot after that) and it really isn't anyone's fault. The judges make their call on the spot and can't change it for obvious reasons.

I mean, suppose after every match, teams were allowed to go up with disputes with the scores and calls made. This means more distractions to the current game occurring (and therefore more possible complaints) and we'd probably need a whole other day of matching to redo the matches that weren't "perfect." Even if we do have proof, the only thing the judges can do is give us a rematch and I'm sure every team would desire a rematch of some sort or another (and how would you do a rematch during the elimination round? that would mess everything up). There's just a lot going on in a small given amount of time.

Lesson: Control what's in your hands and just take what happens. You can't do much more than that and if you try to, you'll just probably lose more brain cells than anything else.

note: you might notice that I'm a little sore, yes, it's true. I'm not going to mention what or when because i know it's not the opponent's fault nor the judge's fault. things happen.