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Originally Posted by Steve W
Actually there is a penalty. If you have 5 CIM's then you can't compete. What tougher penalty is there?
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You misunderstand me. I mean't a point penalty.
Teams that don't pass inspection are forced to go back and modify their robots so that they DO pass inspection. In other words they are FORCED to obey the rules. They can't incur penalties... Becuase if they were capable of incuring penalties they wouldn't be allowed to compete.
And if the teams are responsible for all the penalties than why wasn't this such a big deal last year?
Here's a simple experiment you can do. Do a CD search of all thread titles containing the word "penalties" or "penalty." Set the peramiters to any-date and older.
(The number corresponds to the number of threads)
2008: 13, 2007: 5, 2006: 7, 2005: 10, 2004: 2, 2003: 1, 2002: 1
So obvously penalties were a bigger issue to teams in the 05 and 08 games. There's a clear correlation between the game and the "penalty problems." That leads me to believe that the problem is not so much with the teams but with the games...