San Diego: Tech Foul in Finals

[RallyJeff]

Originally Posted by mkausas

Both cases were protrusions into other robot's frame perimeters and one caused major damage to our robot causing us not be able to score for the rest of the match. When we went to the question box after the match with video evidence of what had happened we were told that the match score would not be reconsidered. It just confuses me how in such an important match the refs made such a controversial call yet didn't make any calls on two such obvious fouls...

Are they obvious? Not all protrusions into an opposing robot's frame perimeter are fouls.

With the March 4th game update, G28 changed: it now prohibits initiating deliberate or damaging contact inside the frame perimeter of an opposing robot. If "the actions of the damaged robot are the catalyst for the damage", there's no foul.

I wasn't at this match, so I can't say whether this is the case here. I'm just throwing it out as something to consider.