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Re: Rule G22 needs to be changed

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday View Post
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.
I think that the rule should stay just as it is.

It's my opinion that the GDC wanted this to not only be a fast game but a game about control of that speed.

We were at BAE, and the rule there was strictly enforced. We are a lap bot (with Skid steer) getting between 4 and 8 laps per match. In the 16 matches that we played (10 seeding, 6 elimination) we got a grand total of 1 penalty, and that was basically driver error. We are lucky to have an experianced drive team, and as such we were able to avoid alot of the penalties that other teams were gathering.

My suggestion: Do not change the rule ... change the way your drivers are driving. Keep your robot under control.
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