Missed Inbounder Assists

[Edxu]

At the recent North Bay Regional, 610 tried to implement the "Pin Possession" tactic, which involves a robot ramming their ball against the wall, in order for it to be counted as possession by trapping.

On the first day that we implemented this for our matches, the refs were unaware of how it worked, and then didn't really pay attention to our robot.

However, we specifically asked each human player performing this technique to get a referee's attention as they were performing the pin possession.

While it may have been the ref at fault for not paying complete attention to their field, I think that if your human player was to get their attention and have them notice your possession as you do it, they would have no problems giving you the assist.

The results of our "Pin Possession" strategy over the day: The refs gradually got used to paying close attention to the ball as it's being inbounded, which gave the pinning robot a much easier time. The pin time was generally between 1 and 3 seconds, which is ample time for a human player to drop the ball, get the attention of a referee and yell "PIN" to them.

I think that the strategy employed should have been conveyed to the ref closest to your human player zone, so that they could've paid special attention.