Ruling Consistancy in Houston

[OneAngryDaisy]

Originally posted by Chris Nowak
In our final match on saturday, in the semifinals, our opponent, which was buzz and miss daisy, got intentional tipping called on them for attempting to tip our partners, Truck Town. I couldnt really see, but apparently the bot trying to tip Truck Town used their arm to try to tip them, and it was pretty blatant that they were trying to tip 68. So, it has been called before. Of course, if we had known they would have called intentional tipping, we would have gotten on the ramp at the end, but because without the call we would have lost we did not. Just shows that the refs on different fields were prepared to make this call, and it wasnt just a random call made because the ref was thinking about it at the time.

This kinda ticked me off because Buzz didn't even use their arm to flip Truck Town. What happened was-

Truck Town was guarding a stack of about 4, and Buzz was pushing them, trying to knock over the stack. Then both robots leaned up on eachother, and Buzz fell down under Truck Town. They proceeded to push Truck Town through the stack, knocking it down. Truck Town's arms prevented them from flipping, as there were bins right under the arms. They never completely flipped over, but the refs disqualified us... It ended up 10-0..


P.S- It took the refs about 10 mins to decide if it was intentional tipping or not, so it wasn't a definite yes or no..