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Originally Posted by raceteen48

also, how does the "Contact outside the bumper zone" work? In SF2 Match 2, in like the last 5 seconds of the match, we were trying to take the Red ball down from the overpass, and 1153's arm got caught in our robot, actually holding onto our battery cable. we were then unable to knock the ball off, and as i understood it, if you have an attachment outside the starting size limitations, and it hits/interferes with another robot especially being INSIDE their robot, you should get a ten point penalty, and yet they didn't, Benge even had to step OVER their arm to leave the circle of judges, and then i even pointed it out to a ref, who responded with "We already gave them a penalty for something" then they posted the score, and he said "still want that penalty" and then they took the score down, and changed it, and they actually won, so we argued with Benge and he just said "we call it as we see it guys" and i walked over to the ref i had talked to earlier and said "ya, i want it called now" and he just said that he talked to Benge and Benge made up his mind but he would talk to him again. i do not know if he did or not, i was really upset about this, since they never gave us a reason other than "they already called them for a penalty (which was impeding a hurdle btw). since when can a team only get called one penalty against them? even if wouldn't effect the match outcome? I feel that we really missed out on a third match that should have been played, and might have changed the outcome of the whole regional.

The reason it did not cause a penalty was because it was unintentional. If you watch the match you'll see that at the end after we place the robot and stayed still in front of the ball. Then when your robot drove at the ball to knock it off, it came in at an angle forcing our arm's double hinge to activate and fold up. When you pushed forward again, nothing kept the arm in the folding position and it fell on your robot. Unfortunately it got tangled up in your robot. If you were wondering they took the score down because they didn't count the red ball on the overpass at the end.