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Originally Posted by Ziaholic

I've got that one on tape also ... working on some edit's as I've got 2 clips ... ball yelling in clip 1, and final score in clip 2. Once I splice them together I'll upload it and provide a link here.

I clearly saw, first-hand, the entire contact-patch of the ball completely across the finish line. The tape isn't conclusive, but it's supportive. I've gotta' re-read the rules regarding how much of the ball has to cross the plane, because if the whole ball has to cross, then it was clearly not enough to score. The alliance penalty somewhat negates the relevence of this call, but it was suspensefull nonetheless. Without that penalty, and if that final ball crossing counted, it would've been a tie!

(and Thanks for the 'bot compliments, we were very proud to ally with y'all)

From Section 7 of the Manual:

CROSSING: The act of a TRCKBALL or ROBOT passing through the plane defined by a line (i.e.
LANE MARKER or FINISH LINE) when it is projected vertically upwards. A TRACKBALL or
ROBOT shall have CROSSED a line when all parts of the object, while traveling in a counterclockwise
direction, have completely passed through the plane.

So the entire ball would have had to cross through the plane to score.