Unofficial Chaos

[Cory]

Originally posted by Ricksta121
Ricksta121:Is pinning allowed on the ramp since it is not a field border and is a scoring object.
head ref:Why would you want to pin on the ramp?
R121inning an oppenent allows us to keep them there to prevent leaving either to make us lose the 50 qps for them being there or to go knock down a stack.
head ref:...The ramp is a field border it is pinning.

From playing in a regional, nats and 2 offseasons. Pinning on the ramp has been a-ok since it is not a field border. Anyways I asked other specific examples and other questions on tipping in general such as: accidents, auto-mode, etc. All answers again very rude. He left us with this:
"If a robot gets on top of you and you move a millimeter, I'm going to dq you"

Have you forgotten the "all decisions made by refs are final" rule? It doesnt much matter why a ref made a decision, or what the content of the decision was. What it comes down to is, what the refs say is the law of the land, like it or not.

It doesnt matter what flew, or didnt fly at other competitions. you cant say "Oh, well at a competition 4 years ago we had so and so and it was considered legal, why cant this?" This is essentially the same argument you are making.


And in favor of the mass majority of "wedge bots":

At SVR, we were having some severe flipping problems ourselves, and had been considering making a wedge just so that some of the force of our opponents would be deflected upwards, and keep us from being flipped. I think this was the intention most teams had when making a robot with a wedge, and should be regarded as a perfectly legal strategy.

/me agrees with Sean.

Cory