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Re: Unscheduled Team Update: 3-20-2014
Preface: My team haven't competed yet and I have never been a referee.
I think this rule update makes sense. The update, from my perspective, says this: High speed collisions, if accidental and damaging/inhibitive, foul. Repeated, aggressive ramming, or purposeful high speed collisions, technical foul. I fail to see how this 'kills defense'. Every sport, from hockey to football, draws the line somewhere for how much 'roughness' is allowed. The intent (to address JVN's point) is to reduce the amount of damage on robots. I think we can all get behind that intent. High speed collisions and repeated, aggressive ramming are not the cornerstones of good defence. Pushing, blocking and pinning are all still legal under this update. Every sport relies on the subjectivity of the referees to decide what constitutes dangerous play or unnecessary roughness and precedents will eventually be set. I actually think this ruling empowers referees, more than burdens them. As far as I'm aware they already watch out for dangerous robot-robot interactions. This gives them the chance to penalize clumsy/overzealous yet good-intending teams without the huge 50pt swing. Last edited by George Nishimura : 20-03-2014 at 19:36. |
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