Petition: Lower technical foul values to make this game better

[Michael Corsetto]

My drive team has two coaches. Our Drive Coach and Our HP Coach. Our HP Coach is responsible for training every other HP we are with in Quals. Every match. Pre-match, she will take the HP's aside with a ball and show them how to the throw a ball into the field or into their robot. Every match. And almost every match, she tells me just how little HP's know about the rules and the game. This isn't new, often HP's don't know what is going on. What is new is their ability to literally throw away matches with the wave of their hand. We went 19 matches without a G40 at IE, but odds are our luck will run out soon...

This is a problem. FIRST, please fix it.

-Mike

[Meredith Novak]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

My drive team has two coaches. Our Drive Coach and Our HP Coach. Our HP Coach is responsible for training every other HP we are with in Quals. Every match. Pre-match, she will take the HP's aside with a ball and show them how to the throw a ball into the field or into their robot. Every match. And almost every match, she tells me just how little HP's know about the rules and the game. This isn't new, often HP's don't know what is going on. What is new is their ability to literally throw away matches with the wave of their hand. We went 19 matches without a G40 at IE, but odds are our luck will run out soon...

This is a problem. FIRST, please fix it.

-Mike

We stressed this as well at Arkansas and FRC 16 human players were coaching others at the practice field. They did pretty well avoiding the penalties in the qualification matches, but the stress of finals is tough and they began getting careless; especially the less experienced teams.