G27 Standard

[TikiTech]

Originally Posted by MrBasse

This call will be like so many others this year and will never get better. Another from St. Joe was in Q47 on us at 2:06 as seen in the video here
Our "wings" are fully within our perimeter unless they are outside of it by the full 16" of extension we gave them.

But, a judgement call is a judgement call. The problem is when a judgement call can take away from students levels of inspiration. Some students expressed that it is hard to have faith in something when a call isn't made on something as black and white as a g28, and also when they are left as grey as a g27.

Edit to add: I think that St. Joe was the first time I saw the game played how it was intended to be played. Rough but not excessive. It was made up of some fast offense, some harsh defense, and mostly clean play sprinkled in between. I don't want to derail this thread away from the OP's point. The only thing to take from my post in regards to that is that this will always be an area decided by the ref on that field, and I don't see how you can put a solid standard to it. Unless we all have impact measuring gauges on our robots, or refs are given radar guns to measure speed prior to impact. Either way, those are more things for a ref to pay attention to, and they have enough on their plates as is.

I think you are correct that a G28 foul should of been called due to damaging contact inside your frame. I do not believe a G27 is warranted since this does not look like a strategy to do deliberate damage.

Were you given a foul for a G24 and an extended G24 technical foul for continually being outside the 20" perimeter?

This is the same situation that happened in Waterloo.

Very unfortunate. It seems that at every event there has been calls that are missed as well as not consistently called. Let alone the FMS...

There were similar issues at our event in HI. We left the field with our 1/8" thick 2x3 pickup system bent and all the welds broken.

I think the small warning in the manual for designing your robot systems robustly should of been bolded and in multiple blue boxes..

A rough game this year is an understatement.