[martin417]

All in all, I thought the refs were dead on throughout the day. I even agreed with the red card on my team. From my point of view at the time, our robot's action appeared both intentional and aggressive, and was obviously outside the bumper zone. I would have made the same call. I listened as our drive team made an argument for why they did it, and their argument sounded weak. After the drive team team saw the video we made from the side line, the light bulb went off over their heads, and we all figured out what happened.

When the red bot tipped, their bot blocked the drivers' view, and our drive team could not see our bot. They thought the red bot was resting on top of our bot (it was actually resting on its side). They drove forward and backward in an attempt to free themselves (even though they weren't actually entangled). What it looked like from the side was them backing up and intentionally ramming the tipped bot. It was unfortunate, but it happened.