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Originally Posted by EricH
Dunno if I quite agree on the consistency, Sean. How does a robot that hasn't fully crossed any lines get 2 <G22> violations? (And I couldn't see any violations in hybrid, either. Then again, I was watching the webcast.)
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I suspect that the refs had a better vantage point of the action, but even if the call was mistaken, it wasn't a wide spread mistake. I attended five events and watched nine different reffing crews (five at championship) and they were very consistent on their calls from my vantage point. Granted, my view of Einstein was pretty awful in terms of <G22>, so I can't comment or even know if there's any debate about the <G22> calls there, but I had great views at the other events. The rule was written without any arbitrary or judgement calls included. Different refs will call ramming/impeding/intentional tipping at different times, but almost every ref will agree on line violations. I'm sure there's a few that slipped by or shouldn't have been called, but this was far less than any other rule from my experience this year.
I hope FIRST continues to write rules that can be clearly called without room for arbitrary debate and individual judgement. It's nice to be able to agree on calls rather than debate them.