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Re: 2010 NASA/VCU regional!!!

I was coaching for 2402 when the 39 point penalty in question occured (in fact, the human player was one of ours). Our human player had a tenancy to want to jam the balls into the trident and he says that one of them was not able to be removed easily, and it came off the rails when he pulled the trident off, and somehow made it onto the field without triggering the ball counter. He has since fixed this issue and has been our trident-er for all our matches today and done a fairly decent job.

On another note, did anybody notice the scoreboard dropping points (before they made the announcement)? We were affected by this in a subsequent match, and one of the spectators from a team on our alliance caught the event on tape. The refs also admitted to the problem and acknowledged that it would be fixed We took the issue up after the match and they said it would be rectified once the day was complete, but at the end of play they said that the recording could not be used as evidence to dispute the claim. I have heard of this happening with several other teams and I was wondering if anyone has successfully pressed the refs and judges to deal with this issue.
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