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Re: Lesson Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Lavapicker View Post
After three events this year and four years of FIRST, here's my two cents:

1. There was way too much subjectivity in this years game which we knew would create problems (ie was it interferring enough to affect a hurdle??)
I agree with this one. I don't think penalties should come down to 'intent'. I think it just puts to much pressure on the refs to determine what a team ment to do. There were two occasions of this on Galileo eliminations. In the quarterfinals, 1114 and 148 got blocked by a team (121?) in hybrid. Many people on the Gameday chat were wanting a penalty/yellow card for the intentional blocking in hyrid. I think that whole rule is nearly pointless because it is so hard to judge intent, especially in hybrid mode where teams have no to limited control of thier robots. Of course, no penalty was called because it was just about impossible to judge the intent. The second example came in the semifinals where 40, holding a trackball, tipped 1114. 40 was called for a penalty for intential tipping. There is alot more to that story that I don't want to get into, but I don't think you can judge what a team's intent was. Unless you hear thier drivecoach telling them 'tip them, tip them' or 'come on, block them'. I don't think the referees should be put in position of judging a team's intent.
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