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Originally Posted by John Hooper
Our robot, and five others, were kept on the track for hours, so the long delay was both boring to the spectators and a disadvantage to our team and others.
As I saw it, the referees mercifully relaxed the "breaking the plane" rule quite a bit, which was clearly the right thing to do.
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Two points here...
1. In retrospect, we should have cleared the field earlier and had those teams come back out when the work-around was put in place. We kept trying to fix it, and kept thinking that the next action was going to make things all better. I agree that this was unfair to the teams on the field. I am sorry that we did not clear the field earlier.
2. No, the referees did not relax G22 as the competition went on. We worked hard to be consistent through the entire event. Clearly, drivers got better. As the head referee, I spoke with many drivers as Saturday's matches proceeded, telling them that they were getting considerably better. The day ended with the final 2 matches being penalty-free, if I recall correctly.
From my perspective, this rookie event was great. This event prepared all of these teams to compete at a high level at their official FIRST events during the upcoming weeks.
Andy Baker