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Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart

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

I cannot speak for the other referees, but I was personally repremanding teams that I saw had a repetative nature of running cross-field and slamming into whatever was there. Each team that I talked to changed their programming to let up at the last second to allow for another robot being there.

Originally Posted by Gary Dillard

Neha is being very kind in her post, by speaking in generalities - her team was on the receiving end of what I felt was an obvious violation of the tipping rule during elimination matches. Another team with a long, high blocking "wing" that extended outside the base footprint came alongside them, turned around and used the force of their wing against the top of 1345's robot to tip them over. Intentional or not it happened right in front of the head ref who immediately signaled that there was no foul. If that's not a tipping violation I don't know what is.

The robot you are referring to was warned for this action and was watched for further violations of the tipping rule. I didn't see the original tip, so I cannot comment further on this.