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Originally Posted by Weepy
Is it just me, or are all the drivers getting just a bit more vicious with each match?
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Thursday was absolutely ridiculous. One team in particular (who I'm not going to name) smashed us into the rack and managed to break our PVC arm. They didn't break the glued parts, they actually snapped the PVC. In addition, they had a fairly thin chassis with no bumpers, so they somehow climbed up on our bumpers and broke off our radio, which was mounted vertically right above and slightly inward from the bumper. Needless to say, we spent plenty of time fixing after that.
There were also several other teams that were pretty rough.
During the qualification rounds, I thought the viciousness decreased by quite a bit, but the elimination rounds got pretty nasty. The judges didn't seem to be watching out for this sort of thing too carefully either. I only remember one 10pt penalty for breaking the bumper zone, and that was when a team got their arm stuck inside Wildstang.