Balls In Opposing Robots

[ErvinI]

Originally Posted by Justin Shelley

In the Finals at the Arkansas regional the Blue Alliance won the first match and the next two the Red Alliance won but solely because of foul points that were questionable.

While I did not see the second match, the final match was likely going to be a red alliance win without the foul, since 16 was in position to pick up the ball. All they needed to do was pick up the ball and truss it for the win. The fact that the opposing alliance member herded the red ball into the blue goal clearly changed the course of the match since then the ball inbounding would take longer than the 10 or so seconds left in the match.

As for the GTRE match, was the second tech foul pinning? That was enough to seal the game for the blue alliance (who won due to strong defense in the first match). The illegal catch just meant that the game was hard to win from an earlier point in the match. While I was cheering on the red alliance (3683 is long due for a championship appearance!), the red alliance got upset by a strong 5th seed.