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Re: Rules that I think should be changed.
I have to agree with your assessment ...Captain...
In the finals matches in Oregon... a defensive robot hit the tower (no one was even trying to hang or anything at this point..) and this, of course, red-carded the team and they lost the match...The referees were asked about it and they indicated it was intentional... so they had no choice...
The 2nd match was played and there was no contact so that team won...
In the 3rd and final match... this same team was lured towards the tower by a robot that could go underneath... it came within 2 inches of touching it again...which would have cost them the championship.
I really feel that this rule is there to protect the tower from being interfered with during the Finale... when a robot simply touches it... it seems an extreme penalty to disqualify that entire team during the finals.
The rule should indicate that the tower is not to be interfered with ...so that robots can hang... a simple touch of the tower is not interference ...especially when no robot is even trying to hang...
I believe that some of these yellow/red card rules are WAY out of proportion to the severity of the penalties....
2010 the year of the YELLOW/RED card... more than ever....
It certainly does not enhance play or even correct some "advantage" given to the team that gets one for the most part.
In real soccer... yellow and red cards are used only in situations of egregious violations of the rules...especially where those violations could or DID result in injury to another player... or for repeated and egregious violations of other rules....
In FIRST the use of these cards (without sufficient discretion given to the referee for their use...) is counterproductive to the game...
By the way... my team was not even IN the Finals in Oregon...
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