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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
There are too many penalties because people are causing the penalties by not following the rules (in most cases).
This rule was clear from the start, never changed, and gives us 30+" of leway .. I just don't get why people are attacking this rule.
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Paul, what I'm seeing a lot of and the reason I think this needs to be changed is that we're seeing lots of tank-steer robots which cross the line then start to tank-turn which causes one of their corners to back up slightly, creating a shadow about 1" long on the other side of the line and BAM... penalty. The majority of the penalties I'm seeing are not at all intentional and many are coming from younger teams with less experienced drivers.
Incidentally, I think we've only been penalized for this once. I'm not arguing for this change for the benefit of our team, but rather the many other less experienced teams that are getting dinged repeatedly basically just because they have inexperienced drivers and robots that aren't quite as easy to control.
Maybe it's just not being enforced as strictly at your regional as here.