FRC Blog - It Wasn’t Against the Rules

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by bduddy

This is why I didn't like that Frank made the post the way he did - he's only contributing more towards it being an "expected" action to give up a very valuable resource, when your opponents may have brought the problem upon themselves. I'm not saying teams shouldn't do it, but...

Well they did use their time out before the 3rd match of the finals and it was a serious hit from one of their robots that caused the damage that needed to be fixed. So the time out was going to go to "waste" if it wasn't used at that point and while you may not be able to say that the damage was solely their fault they certainly played a part in it.

As a mentor for one of the teams that benefited from their use of their timeout it certainly looked like it wouldn't really hurt them. In the second match we scored fewer points during the entire match than they did in auto and only won due to foul points. However for that 3rd match our alliance got our act together and started doing full 3 robot assist cycles and frankly played the best match that they had played together.