2011 Virginia Regional @VCU

[PayneTrain]

After we get all of the gremlins out of the robot in Baltimore, the field gremlins reared their ugly head.

A 6-3-0 record that I considered to be a 7-2-0 because the minibot poles were calibrated incorrectly, but the team update saying the refs can't judge by sight didn't account for the FMS being itself.

It seemed as if Blue 2 and Blue 3 liked to die in the middle of every match during elims. The 8, 5, and 7 seeds always had them go down in the middle of the match.

In our eliminations match, the 2 seed team had a human player knocking a tube out of 75s grip with another tube. The head referee said at the beginning that a move like that will be considered a penalty plus a yellow card, since it isn't very GP.

However, there was no penalty since the referee said it was "a one time thing," "can't be considered a strategy," and "she didn't see it," even with corroboration from 25's coach (Shawn?).

Then, 612 got a red card for doing a one time thing that you can't consider a strategy by shoving 1895 off of them and into our zone. That was in TU 16, but with all of the pin and lane violations 1895 was racking up against 612 on the field, it's hard to argue that aggressive play begets aggressive play.

I'm not trying to shift blame on to the referees or the opposition, it's just apparent our luck in 2010 ran out with nothing left for this year.

We'll be back, VCU. We'll be back.