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Unread 01-04-2007, 18:51
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Re: Bad Call?

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Originally Posted by 1359th Scalawag View Post
Entering the Finals, my team's alliance was doing great, we got both robots onto the ramp and would have won but the referees made a strange call. Part of the ramp robot we were on had an innertube under it. They decided not to give us that 60 points and we lost the match because of the rule that states "scoring robots must not be supported by any feild elements".

The intent of that rule is so that none of the robots that are lifted hang on the game structures or sit on innertubes. In this case, the supported robots were only supported by another robot but we were not given those 60 points. We lost the next match and were eliminated from the finals.

I would like imput from other teams. Was thier judgement right?
i remember that. There was one match that a robot on the opposing aliance had a tube stuck over it (one of ours) and they got on a ramp and they didn't call it possesion and they got the full points.
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