Ruling Consistancy in Houston

[Rick]

Some of you may have seen the curie quarterfinals between alliances 4 and 5. Before I explain what happened I want to be clear on what im trying to prove here. I am not upset with any teams at all. I am upset with the head ref on our field.

So here's the set up. 308 chose us(121) and 188 to be partners. 126 chose 322 and 781 for partners. The first match, while tying to protect our stack 126 gets us in the gray starting area on our side. We could not get away since we could only go under the bar forwards. The proceeded to push us and with thier wdge get us up on our side leaving us immobile for the remander of the match. 308 also blew something up in their drivetrain leaving them immobile. It became a 2 vs 0 match with the EP's coming out 70-8.

Next match we realize we need to do something drastic to win the round. So we set up a 6 stack hoping to get most of the bins on our side. 126 and 781 lost autonomous since they were going for a zero score. Us and 188 get onto our side and keep 126 and 781 in the starting area respectivley. If you haven't seen, we like 126, have a wedge on the front of our robot. In the same manor and area of the field and in the same time bracket, we hindered 126 useless as they did in the previous match to us. The hood of our robot is actuated by a pnuemaic cyclinder to prevent boxes going over us in autonomous. The refs thought we were trying to get 126 on top of us and then using this hood to literally catapault them off of us. In reality this hood cant even lift a battery. The 6 stack survived and we are looking at 23 x 6 for a score (138). This would have won the round but the head ref decided to call us on intential tipping. As soon as i can get video up ill let you all see what i mean.

What makes me so bitter is that we didn't lose the match. It was hard fought on all the teams sides. All I wanted was to have the refs be consistant in rulings. Maybe since we flipped over the first time they thought we were trying to flip them over. Being manipulator i can tell you that i was merely trying to remove 126's 5th wheel out of our pnumatics.

We have the ability to flip anyone if we want to. If you can drive up the ramp you can drive up our wedge and end up on your back. The refs also did not give us any warning whatsoever on our wedge all 3 days.

And was anyone else called for intentional robot tipping in houston?