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Originally Posted by Cory
Speaking as a former referee (2005) intent is incredibly hard to judge in the heat of the moment. You can't assume anything about intent, only what your eyes have seen on the field.
You either have to call every infraction, no matter how small, or figure out how to keep teams from continuing to receive penalties, be it a rule change, or simply more practice for teams, etc.
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That is a very good point. It is hard to judge "intent" when you have 5 other robots and such to watch. Thinking about it more, I do think that drivers will learn (over time) to be more careful and they'll pick up less of these penalties.
However, if someone has an auton that goes awry, I feel that it shouldnt be penaltized UNLESS it hurts another robot.