[FTC]: New De-Scoring penalty interpretation

[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by CENTURION

If the ref thought your alliance partner rammed the other robot into the pendulum, then I think it's reasonable to say that they caused the block to be de-scored. They just used the opponent's robot to do it..

I would agree if it was egregious ramming. But I think if you look at this clip you will see that it was pretty mild interaction that caused the opponent to catch on the pendulum and flick the cube out when it pulled back.

If this type of interaction is to be penalized with 50 point hits then we may as well coat the robots in bubble wrap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...jjQwkc#t=12 9

[CENTURION]

Oh yeah, looking at the footage, I definitely wouldn't fault you for that one (But then I'm not a Ref ).

They were moving under their own power, and the block came out when they were turning, not being pushed.

You know, I wouldn't be very surprised if FTC eventually followed in FRC's footsteps and started requiring some sort of bumpers. But then, that would only encourage the people who call it "FRC lite".