[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by FIRST Rocks

Indeed there were some very poor calls by the referees. On Archimedes, in semifinal 1-2, team 254 was tipped over by the opposing alliance, and no penalties or DQs were called. Then, in the very next match, 254 was tipped again by the same robot, and still no penalties were called. Watching the same thing happen to 71 on Einstein, only the aggressor being disqualified, made it even worse.

As for 1114, I heard they were also pinned for much longer than 10 seconds, and the referees didn't start a count, make the aggressor back off, or call a penalty.

Here are some other things I noticed this year. There were no "special effects" for the Chairman's Award; in the past they've had the aforementioned confetti balloons or fireworks. Why nothing this year?

Lastly, I wonder why Dave didn't wear a suit for the finals this time.

About the semifinals on Curie and 1114. First, since I was the human player I didn't get a good view of what happened, so I don't know if it was legal or not. I do know that 48 did get a 10 point penatly, but that was after it was challenged by 1114. The 10 points didn't matter since we still won and moved on.