Interesting rule calls from the Detroit District

[Don Wright]

Thanks for all the comments and discussion...

For our deployment...the last thing I'll say is that it's a little more complicated that it initially looks in the video that could be a basis for it being legal. However, the fact that some friends that we trust brought it to question made us immediately decide it was too close to call (argue) and in order to not risk anything, we decided to change. Our deployment will be better than ever at Troy...

The second video was mostly just a warning that even something as innocent as this can get your team DQ'd in quals (or your alliance DQ'd in elims)...

As for the third video...I know how the rules read. However, I still have questions because the conclusions that have come to here give way to some very powerful defense techniques. We all are realizing that the mini-bot (whether we like it or not) is the key to winning this year.

In this video, you can also see that our alliance is playing hard defense on 51 who had an outstanding mini-bot. However, as soon as it got close to the tower, 2832 got out of there to avoid the red card. However, should they have "gone limp" and let themselves get pushed into the tower? If this is allowed, then to stop teams with great mini-bots is to just get in the way and get pushed into the tower and get pinned... At the minimum, they have to back away 6ft for 3 seconds...and then the mini-bot race is lost...

I see this just like the robots getting pushed into the opponent scoring zone. Even though they get pushed into the scoring zone, it's still a penalty (yes...provided the pushing team is trying to score...etc...).

Maybe I'll ask Q&A...