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Unread 30-03-2008, 20:43
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Re: 2008 Boston Regional

With shooter robots it is sometimes difficult to tell and sometimes annoying with calling the "Impeding Hurdling" penalty. I know that 578 ran into tons of problems with not getting that called on their opponents. In one match we were trying to launch and actually rammed from behind as our arm lowered to kick the ball. We only kicked it about 4 feet high because of that and no penalty was called, but we still won the match.
On a team like 125, their shooter device was located on the robot and "loaded" very slowly (I think), so a ref would have a hard time knowing if it was trying to hurdle. Some liberties would have to be taken to be fair to the shooter team, especially if they actually are in the act of hurdling without raising any sort of arm.
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