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Originally Posted by 1075guy
Also, I think the refs were a bit trigger happy with <G22> on a few occasions (calling it when it didn't really happen), and also EXTREMELY trigger happy with <G42>, Hurdler interference. They were calling it if a passing team even so much as brushed a robot in the process of hurdling... but they weren't calling it when we (1075) were being impeded while trying to GET close enough to the overpass. (We're a launcher bot). Which is fine, as I don't think that was the intent, but it was irritating, as we got called on <G42> a couple times, and were never once helped by it.
In my mind, <G42> was intended to stop teams from pushing and shoving and disrupting a hurdlers attempt to hurdle. Brushing into them on the way by didn't disrupt them...
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I have to agree with you about <G42>. I was the drive team coach for my team at the Connecticut Regional, so I paid particular attention to our robot. We practiced not breaking <G22> a lot, so we were pretty much ok there. However, we got called on <G42> at least twice that I can rememeber. In both (or all) circumstances, we had just picked up our trackball, and were zooming across the field at high speed to score another hurdle, when we incidentally clipped a corner (just barely) on opposing team's robot who was mid-hurdle, not disturbing their effort to hurdle at all. If your bot is clearly offensive (we had an average of about 5 hurdles per match), and you are in possession of ball, making your way to score... a small amount of contact with another robot, not interfering with them, doesn't deserve a 10-point penalty. It didn't determine any match outcomes for us, but it seems that if they're so adamant on enforcing "the intent" of the rules this year, they would better examine the circumstances. But hey, the refs are human, just like our drivers who misjudged a little bit. Like a lot of people have pointed out, I think we're giving them too much grief. The game is still great, and most of us have said that it hasn't affected our match outcomes, so maybe we should just let it be.