[dr1008]

i dont know about some of you but i do like some penalties but i really do agree with you on the matches being decided by penalties and i think that some of them should be more severe, for all of you that were at the buckeye regional you know why. i am one of the drivers for team 1008 and the way my alliance was made for the finals matches our robot was the only one that could hurdle. we lost our first match because of some plain bad luck, the second we dominated with a score of like 80 to 40 or something like that. the third match we were hurdling and a bot from the other alliance on purpose hits us from the back and pushes us up onto the overpass and got us stuck, we were impeding in no way there were 2 lanes open and the bot that pushed us had stopped and waited for us to let go of the ball so they wouldnt be hitting the hurdler. but in my opinion it was extremely against gracious professionalisms and we ended up losing that match and a chance to advance because of it. they were given a 10 pnt penalty but our alliance had to give ourselves a going back across the line penalty to get our bot down. we finally did but with not enough time to spare to do anything.

in my opinion there should be less penalties for dumb little thing but the bid things that actually affect matches should be of a higher cost to the fouling team