It could happen to you (but we hope not)

[Jared]

This years game is extremely rough, and back to back replays, especially in elimination rounds, can really hurt robots. Teams are willing to take more risks in eliminations because they know that if they loose, they are out, and drivers would rather have a damaged robot than an eliminated one.

My opinion is that the match should be stopped when something (like a pedestal issue) happens, so that this sort of debate about what could have happened never has to happen. It's impossible to know exactly what would happen, and it hurts both alliances to have to replay full matches over and over again.