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My Final Take on This
Posted by Andy Grady, Coach on team #42, P.A.R.T.S, from Alvirne High School and Daniel Webster College.
Posted on 3/1/99 8:24 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: Thanks . . posted by Brad Pflum on 2/28/99 11:41 PM MST:
There are two sides to every story, and i feel that there is a median to this whole story. First look at why Gunn was so successful. Lets face it, Gunn was like a vetern in there, pushing teams around when they needed and using force to get control of the puck. Now there is nothing wrong with that. The arm that Gunn has on thier machine was being used many times in the competition to force other robots out of position and other things. I remember one round Gunn knocked a robot clean off the puck with their arm. It was totally legal, but it was used none the less. I also believe that the same arm broke on of the flags on the puck, correct me if im wrong. The way i see it is that they were sitting on thin ice and were pushing the bounds of contact. The refs must had noticed this and took action when the Bay Bomber was tipped. If you watch the video from Chicago you will see that it was much more brutal than California. What Gunn was doing was nothing compared to what some of the teams in chicago were doing, yet there were no DQ's. Mabey FIRST needs to confer with the refs and clear up all of this. Thats how I see it at least.
Congrats to Both teams on a great battle,
Andy Grady
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