Indiana Rookies! (far from it!)

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Originally Posted by sprocketman92

I am sorry that you feel that it was a bad call but may i remind you that the earthquakers (3487) robot was on the blue side of the field and you were on our fender in which you were playing defense on 3947 (THE LAST CRUSADERS) which is fine you can play defense but since you were on the opposite alliances side of the field the contact was not a foul. If you are talking about the "intensity" of the impacts I think you should refer to [G27]


[G27]
Deliberate or damaging contact with an opponent Robot on or inside its Frame Perimeter is not allowed.
Violation: Technical-Foul and potential Yellow Card


High speed accidental collisions may occur during the Match and are an expected part of the game. Robots place mechanisms outside of the Frame Perimeter at their own risk; no penalties will be assigned for contact between two such extended mechanisms.

A Robot with a mechanism outside of its Frame Perimeter may be penalized under this rule if it appears they are using that mechanism to purposefully contact another Robot inside its Frame Perimeter. Regardless of intent, a Robot with a mechanism outside its Frame Perimeter that causes damage to another Robot inside of its Frame Perimeter will be penalized.

Repeated or egregious violations of this rule will earn the offending Robot a Yellow Card.

Since I am one of the drivers i can tell you that we were just trying to get to the basket as fast as we could so we could score since you guys were playing such good defense and you guys stopped us before we even got to the baskets therefore impact occurred. We are sorry that your robot was damaged but we feel that the referees did a great job and it wasn't a bad call.

Although the rules don't specifically rule out a destruction derby, they do sum that up in the introduction with gracious professionalism. It would be cool for FRC to make a rule against such a thing. Yes high speed collisions are expected and thats part of the game, but moving a robot out of the way by moving perpendicular to a wall actually doesn't move anything out of the way. Moving parallel to the wall to remove a robot from your intended location would have been a cool move instead. The incident may have been percieved as bad by everyone since te strategy ends in destruction. The refs made a good call, as they are following the rules, but FRC should keep this incident in mind for next year.

Otherwise, we could have just had a destruction derby if we followed the rules verbatim.

Anyways, it was great seeing so many new teams. There was a great sense of community and support from everyone and it was a blast helping out other teams.