Thread: Drive-over penalties still being called
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Re: Drive-over penalties still being called
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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718 View Post
In our last match at Cass Tech we got rammed and tipped over. When our team mate came to flip us back over, we landed on a ball and it got stuck underneath us. Our driver then spent the next 30 seconds or so trying to get it unstuck, doing nothing else but driving in circles. In the end we ended up with 5 or 6 penalties for this event. Is this a good call by the refs based on the rule?
From the information you presented no penalties should have been assigned. Although I would want to see the match in order to be completely sure of this, you said that the drive did nothing, but try to get the ball out from underneath, but this may not be the case depending on the specifics. For instance if there were other robots in the area it would be likely that in the process of trying to get the ball out he, or she, unintentionally interfered with the opposing alliance which would constitute a penalty.
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