[DDAwg3]

I agree w/ the original posting that there has been a continous amount of overly agressive play, and there was initially a glimmer of hope during explanation of the rules this year that they actually might uphold them.....however it has gone by wayside of an idle threat -such as parents telling their children...one more time and no TV.

However in the two regionals (Granite State & UTC) we participated they waited until the last of the qualifiers o issue any. In the UTC it was in the next to the last match and one I felt a match too late. Example : A team (# 181 which had been playing well and scoring effeciently throughout the tourney. They got tipped over and another high scoring machine needing to place one more tube for the wrap around. But in between that and them was robot 181 laying with it's arm in a vunerable position. Team X from a good distance slammed & pushed it's way thru and in the process broke 181's device.

If any instance I thought should been a place for restraint that would have been one. Our Robot was custom fabricated and welded aluminum frame consisting of 1" x 1" and 1" x 3" tibing w/ .13" wall. This is fairly strong members and we have three considerable deformations of certain members that took quite a bit of force to dent/bend.

Unfortunately when FIRST does start to try and control the situations I hope they don't swing the other way of the spectrum.