TOWER Malfunctions since Week 3

[pathew100]

Originally Posted by IKE

We had a match where our alignment device triggered the tower sensor before the minibot deployed. Unfortunately, this was the "4th" minibot which disabled the field and thus our team did not get a chance to deploy that match. It was an interesting ruling in that the "tower" triggered, but since a minibot did not deploy, the team could not be given the points.

That happened a few times at MSC in quals and elims. And it brings up an interesting quandary. Because of the false trigger, the game ends about 5-6 seconds early.

At that point the referees have to huddle and determine whether or not an alliance could have done enough in the 5-6 seconds that should have happened to effect the outcome of the match. (Because this is technically a field fault)

In most cases hanging 1 or 2 tubes that late in the match will not change the outcome (Most matches at MSC had 3-4 logos on the top and middle rows already so your possible points for hanging 1-2 more tubes is low).

If the score was close and the refs thought someone could have scored tubes to change the outcome then we would have replayed the match. Luckily this was not necessary.