Unfortunate Red Card Ruling on Newton

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by Pault

The problem isn't the definition of incapacitate, it's the definition of intentional. This year it seems like any sort of defense that resulted in a tipper robot was cause for a red card, even when it seemed like that defensive bot was playing normally and the offensive bot was not very stable.

Exactly, it seems like many refs read the "tipping" part of the rule, but ignored the "Strategies aimed at the destruction or inhibition of ROBOTS" part.

Also, going back to what the OP claims the ref said, the statement that "a foul+yellow card is automatically a red card" is still false.