Tip over/knock over - when is it a foul?

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Originally Posted by CalTran

If you can post a link to a match video in which the situations happened we would be able to perhaps give a definite answer.

I or any part of my team does not own this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwmP...e_gdata_player

My team was on the other end of the tipping. We know that our robot does have a high center of gravity and have been trying to get that as low as possible without compromising our design, but still thought the play was a bit foul.

We also believed that there were many G28 infringements made by the 2144 robot that were not called. They were trying to play defense with their intake down, and ended up many some dents in our A frame, the back of our shooter and the bottom of our bellypan and also ripped off a sensor wire off the back of our shooter. They would have also taken out of several encoders and our main timing belts on our arms had we not made proper guards for them. I worry for other teams that may have not taken the precaution we did would be damaged for several matches and may not even be able to compete.

After seeing how 2144 was playing defense one of our mentors went to talk to the team. They talking to them after the match, we did not get the sense that they understood or even cared about what they did on the field.

I am not trying go after this team, and maybe there is a side of the story I have not heard yet, but I do want to express the concern that the driving was reckless and will not be accepted lightly at any competition. I recommend that this team work to play cleaner because they did field a well performing robot that could do very well if it played cleaner.