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Originally Posted by AcesPease
In Hartford some teams made minor modifications to their bots to avoid incursion penalties. The refs were firm on the calls. I didn't count, but there were a lot of 5 point and DQ incursion penalties called. I think many of us thought we had 3 inches to spare and never thought how hard it was going to be to call it, so if you somehow planned on using the 3 inch cushion, you were almost guaranteed to be called for the incursion.
Bill Pease
Teacher Mentor
Aces High
2006 UTC New England Champions with 177 and 1124
2006 BAE Granite State Finalists with 319 and 562
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That happened to us once. We were DQed but we didn't think it was possible for us to go into the goal. But we took our bot to the practice field and tried to figure out how it could have gone into the goal, and when we realized that it was possible we made a modification to prevent it.