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Originally Posted by rees2001
How many of you watched the ENTIRE match?
They went on to make 8-9 laps, drive pretty well & have a good match. I wouldn't think the problem is the robot or the team but the rule. There is no reason such a small infraction should have cost the team 120 points! They never made contact with another robot, they never impeded traffic, they never even hit the wall in hybrid. So why get 120 points in penalties?
If you want teams to succeed don't make rules that penalize you for driving in CIRCLES.
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I'd say: if you know that your robot is going to start 1ft from a penalty line, perhaps you should test the ol' autonomous mode before putting your robot on the field. That looked like something that'd be really easy to catch in testing. Nobody forced them to spin in circles, they did it themselves.
"No harm, no foul" is a poor way of deciding rules that would quickly cause even more vitriolic threads than the harsh calling of G22 does. Instead of "-130 points in a match", you'd have "THOSE GOSH DARN REFS HAVE IT OUT FOR US, GIVING US A PENALTY" since it would then be more of a judgement call than a hard-set rule.