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Re: G13, G44 and Pinching Rollers

I'm obviously not an impartial source but I was field side directly in front of 33 when they got called for one of those carrying penalties. They were not being interacted with by another robot and were not against a bump. I saw the ref signal it and I saw the ball come up off the ground a bit. It wasn't very blatant, it's not like it was 2" off the ground-but you could see it come up.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if the same thing had occurred to us at some point as well and it got missed or was given a pass. Our roller system is designed so it's nearly physically impossible for this to happen, but sometimes weird stuff occurs.

It seemed like for the most part the attitude of the referee crew on Archimedes was to let the teams play unless there was a very clear violation. Overall I thought it was the best reffing I had seen at any event I've been to this year, and maybe over the last two years.
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