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Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle
Although i have to agree with the change in the ranking system, i cannot say that i agree with the GDC changing the rules on the 3" penalty. It seems like they took a critical engineering problem out of the equation, i cannot speak for everyone, but as soon as we saw the problem occur on the robot, we designed a solution. I was surprised how many people hadn't designed a robot to prevent themselves from doing that. Dean and Woodie even brought that point up at kickoff.
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They may have eliminated the penalty if the incursion is accidental, but they did not eliminate the incentive to not have incursions. Many teams I witnessed that got balls stuck underneath them spent substantial time, in some cases up to a minute to get the ball out from underneath them.