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Re: Buckeye 2006

OK, here we go. You all know that I try to look at the positive aspects of things as much as possible, but I feel there are a few issues that occured this weekend that NEED to be addressed. Keep in mind that this is NOT an attack or bashing of the Buckeye Regional in any way...just some pointers for the upcoming events to ensure that all competitions are as "fair and equal" to each other as possible.

Inspections
I was not there on Thursday, but I heard all of the controversy regaurding AndyMark Omniwheels and IFI Traction wheels being deemed cleats and almost being declared illegal. I saw some tape on robots that was not electrical nor providing insulation.

Field Issues
See the week 2 field issue thread for my comments: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=45219
Nothing that wasn't taken care of.

Game Rules
I understand and encourage tough defense. I saw and heard about quite a bit of unnessecary roughness, however. Taking a shot at a robot accross the field that is not moving and is not in posession of any balls or in any way attempting to score (but not disabled, just incapacitated) seems worthy of a penalty to me. While repeatedly bashing, but not causing great harm, a robot that is not moving or stuck in the corner and not attempting to score may be legal, what happened to gracious professionalism?

If the scoring system was having as many problems as it did at GLR, I questiong the validity of the results since it appeared (I could be wrong) that some refs with manual counters were not in position or not watching when robots were scoring in their areas (at times).

I even saw a ref cleaning their safety glasses and turning to talk to the camera man DURING a match.

I may be confused on this particular issue (and if it happened only once, then who cares) but we had a partner that was never enabled (for whatever reason) and remained on the near side...we came to play defense since we only had 2 operable robots and incurred 3 offsides penalties. Was this correct since that partner was never disabled, tipped, or e-stopped (at least I don't think it was...I didn't coach that match)?

Finally (again if it happened only once, who cares), here's the situation. The robots were set, the field was set, and we had just finished introductions, but had not begun the countdown or even the pre countdown. Our human player stepped around our coach, stepping outside of the alliance station box, to talk to our partner about staying in the alliance station box. In doing so, the ref threw a penalty. Our coach (I know he's not supposed to talk to the refs, but it was right there and in the moment) asked if that was a penalty even though we hadn't started yet and the ref didn't really answer. Is this correct??

Practice Field
All I'm going to say is that in this year's game, a piece of carpet is NOT an adequate practice FIELD. One upper goal (with light) and one lower goal MINIMUM would be nice - is it this way at other regionals as well??

Kev

P.S. I fully expect criticism and comments like this about the Wisconsin Regional so we can learn and improve.
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