[eugenebrooks]

Although I want to make it clear that, in my opinion, this was one of the best years ever for FIRST, I found the rule for the single point goal penetration to be poorly thought out with regard to its consequences. I understand the need to protect the accuracy of the scoring, but this portion of the field could have been designed with more margin, avoiding accidental DQs, as well as making it harder for a team to generate a DQ by crashing your robot while it was scoring single point balls. The rule could have been written to discourage crashing a robot in attempt to cause a DQ. The rather frequent crash attempts I witnessed were totally against the ideals of FIRST as I understand them and should not have been encouraged by the rules.

Eugene