[thefro526]

In New Jersey they were pretty lenient towards broken robots and understood that if a robot breaks and a part is outside of normal configuration it wasn't done on purpose and I don't think any penalties were called.

In Philly we were called for having a piece of aluminum sticking out of our robot after we were involved in a hard impact. The aluminum served no purpose other than to act as a spacer and it was still within the bumper perimeter, but the refs chose to call us on it.

Hopefully the refs will be understanding at the Championship, but if not, I guess it just means that we should all build more robust machines, right?