A "Dangerous Situation"

[Adam Freeman]

If 2474 would have gotten between us and 2337, we would have had 2337 circle around the pyramid and push them away from us.... or make some attempt to clear the space for our full court shooting.

I can't imagine any scenario where we (alliance #1) would have tried to induce a penalty on 2474 by pushing them into us. The strength of our machine is once it setup, we don't have to move it to continue making shot after shot. If we were bumped, that would only cause us to have to reposition the robot, thus slowing down our scoring with the hopes that the refs would see it and call some type of penalty (pretty unlikely it would be a worthwhile call for us).

In once of the matches, I think F2, 217 did get inbetween us and 2337, and ended up bumping us. They got a 3pt penalty, we asked the Head Ref if that should have been a Tech fouls...and we were told 2337 pushed 217 into us, and if any Techs were called it would have been on 2337 for a G18-1.

So that seems counter to what 2474 was told. My guess is that the Head Ref's scenario for his discussions with 2474 were based on the assumption that 2337 was already in position and 2474 was trying to squeeze into the space between us and 2337. Then they would be putting themselves into a dangerous position of trying to block our shots and/or potentially bumping into us in the protected zone.

Unfortunately, there are just way too many scenarios and interpretations of scenarios for the head refs to give a for sure way they will call a penalty, before they actually see how it plays out on the field.