IRI Finals Question

[magnets]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

Probably so that no further damage would potentially be caused by the entanglement

I don't see a rule that says you can disable a robot if you feel like it.

There are 6 ways a robot can get disabled.

1. "ROBOTS whose operation or design is unsafe are not permitted.
Violation: FOUL & DISABLED. If the issue is due to design: Re-Inspection."

Not this. It wasn't unsafe, and if it was a G3, there would have been fouls on both sides.

2. G4. Placing robots on field. It's not this either.

3. G6. Delayed start of match. I don't think so.

4. G10. Deals only with field elements.

5. G20. Bumper rules. Bumpers were totally fine and in the bumper zone (measured with respect to normal robot orientation).

6. G21. Extend outside field. 2056 did this plenty (with no fouls), but never contacted anything, so no disable. Not this.

What's frustrating to me is that my buddy said they never explained who got the first foul and they never explained the second foul at all.

[Jay O'Donnell]

The explanation for finals match 1 was "At the beginning of the match, one of the red robots drove onto a blue robot with the intent to inhibit that robot's actions", not quite high speed ramming. From watching the video here: http://youtu.be/gCfHNWajGq4, I can't see anything like that, so it must have been off camera.

Edit: magnets beat me to it but I'll keep my post here for the video link.

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by magnets

I don't see a rule that says you can disable a robot if you feel like it.

2056's drive team could have just stopped moving to avoid further damage. Their robot wasn't necessarily disabled; it just wasn't moving.

[magnets]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

2056's drive team could have just stopped moving to avoid further damage. Their robot wasn't necessarily disabled; it just wasn't moving.

My buddy, who was there, is pretty sure they were actually disabled. He said their numbers turned red on the screen, which happened last time a robot was disabled. He also said that 2056's drivers seemed to try to drive their robot, and it wasn't moving.

He could be wrong though.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

2056's drive team could have just stopped moving to avoid further damage. Their robot wasn't necessarily disabled; it just wasn't moving.

The reason we believe they were disabled was because both 1114's and 2056's numbers on the scoring screen were in red, which is what happens when they have been disabled (as we saw with team 51 in quarterfinals).