Banging the driver station

[*Rachelle*]

Originally Posted by swaxman12345

Yeah. We accidentally ran into the wall once and dislodged an opposing driver station. They didn't have any tape or Velcro on their station but even so we got a yellow card. I think I'd be more inclined to issue a yellow card if it was repeated match to match, but that was the referee's ruling.

I don't understand why they would yellow card this. It was once from what you say, and they specifically warned all of us about driver stations being knocked off in in "Week .5" and that we should Velcro them.

"You should expect the opposing robots to drive at your castle wall at high speed during auto, slamming into it. If your operator console isn’t secured, it may go flying. There is a strip of hook and loop tape on the shelf in the player station that holds your operator console. You should consider putting a mating piece of hook and loop tape on the bottom of your operator console to help it stay put. See Section 2.2.3.1 of the Game Manual." - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic....OwoXGJhj.dpuf

Egregious is supposed to mean severe, and the examples the FRC manual used are more along the lines of humans touching robots during a match, not robots hitting the driver station.

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Originally Posted by *Rachelle*

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Egregious is supposed to mean severe, and the examples the FRC manual used are more along the lines of humans touching robots during a match, not robots hitting the driver station.

From my perspective behind the driver station, the hits were egregious in the sense it was shocking and bad. Not sure how it looked from the ref's location.

They were also repeated when the robot was shooting for the low goal.

My drive team asked if we could do the same thing when we were on the field (our robot was built very tough) and were told that is not a strategy we would use whether legal or not.