2011 Minnesota North Star Regional

[Lynsey93]

Originally Posted by mott

However, at 3:53 of the video, it appears obvious that the Blue Alliance is called for a G23 by the midfield official on the left side of the screen. He waves his flag and points right at the robot in contact with the Red Alliance tower during the End Game. You really need to start watching the video earlier than the 3:30 mark to see that machine drive into the tower (during a time when it isn't illegal) but then, once the End Game begins, the G23 is called.

Here's the interesting thing...Refresh yourself with the G23 rule:

<G23> Contact (via ROBOT or GAME PIECE) with the opposing ALLIANCE‟S TOWERS is prohibited. Violation: PENALTY plus RED CARD

The above (pasted from the 2011 rule book) seems to indicate that a G23 should have resulted in a Red Card in addition to the Penalty. No Red Card was issued or we know what that would have meant in the Elimination Round.

Maybe having access to all this video isn't such a good thing after all...

This is what I was talking about earlier. This is what I was upset about even before the minibot thing. And I saw this team do that in another match too, without being penalized.

To me it does look like he points down at the truck-bot, rather than across the field. I don't know for sure. And even if it is later than one would expect, he calls it later than the right-field action too. You can't see super clearly from this video, but that's my interpretation.