[danshaffer]

Originally Posted by EricH

Somebody tell team 8 that! In SVR finals, they played legal (mostly) defense.

"Ball denial" (as we're calling it now) was discussed at length between our drivers and rule lawyers and the head ref at SVR. Some of the illegal contact (for which we were penalized) occurred because it was behind the glass and so our drivers could not see where our robot or other robots were. The head ref understood this issue, but merely suggested that we send our robocoach to the other end of the field to mitigate this issue... not exactly an ideal solution.