Has there ever been a fight at compeition?

[cbale2000]

Our drive coach thought it might be cool to put a GoPro on our human player... hilarity ensued...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4MSCjrd0M

[BigBen]

At Crossroads in qualifying match #52, our team had a drop of power to our router (intermittent wiring issue that should have been caught but plagued us through several matches, you can see the response our human player had) that caused our router to reset resulting in a dead robot for about 20 seconds or so while we had the ball. Dead ball was called and another ball entered play. When our robot came back online the ball needed to be cleared, they rushed a shot at the high goal and missed low. The referee was telling them that they just needed to clear the ball from the field, so they picked the ball up went to the side to just shoot it out of bounds and nearly shot one of the field refs in the face. Our robot uses a leverage plate with a lot of bungee cord tension to hit the ball from below so it makes quite the THWAP when it shoots the ball. There was a lot of confusion and the head ref directed the ball to be put back on the field, which we just barely shot in the high goal before the end of the match.

I must say, they were definitely not aiming at the ref, just trying to clear the ball. The response of the ref as the robot is preparing to launch the ball is funny now to watch, but I cannot see how anybody else would react differently. These volunteers definitely put themselves "in the line of fire" and I respect them for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyAXZ-wyOxU#t=77

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by BigBen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyAXZ-wyOxU#t=77

Ohhhh, my sides! Ref be like "Ummm... is that robot aiming at me?"

[Rman1923]

I heard once that someone got punched in the face at CMP 2013 over a seat (Not surprising really). Like this is why I like being pit crew, we have an insta-bench where the drive team and two lucky volunteers can sit comfortably.
Oh yeah, and in 2014 the robot went crazy and tried to run me over. The assault wasn't aerial, but it was still assault.

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Originally Posted by cbale2000

Our drive coach thought it might be cool to put a GoPro on our human player... hilarity ensued...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4MSCjrd0M

Nick on a stick! Nick on a stick! Nick on a stick! Nice headshot by the way.