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Originally Posted by David Brinza
To be clear, impeding has a specific meaning and only refers to robot traffic around the track. If Team 8 denies the Red alliance access to their Trackball, they're not necessarily guilty of impeding per <G40>. The occasions where their robot maneuvered in front of an opposing robot is risky and creates judgment calls for the ref's (regarding passing lanes, etc.). Just note that the definition of IMPEDING makes no mention of Trackballs: IMPEDING: Preventing or obstructing an opposing ROBOT’S ability to proceed around the TRACK in the direction of traffic. No team should assume that they have the right of unabated access to their Trackballs during a match. Some teams exercise strategies and tactics that make it very difficult for their opponents to gain control of their own Trackballs. I thought Team 8 did that effectively in those matches. In my opinion, their play was legal defense - pure and simple. |
I don't disagree with you, but some of 8's other moves should have, in my opinion, at least warranted a count, but they were few and far between here. Again, the refs seemed to be going more for consistency than a literal interpretation of the rules.