Controversy at Rutgers

[Ian W.]

Originally posted by MChen
At Colombia (NYC) this weekend, the refs instructed the operator team that the mentor was not allowed to "touch" balls. This would result in a DQ.

Now, the rule quotes post above seem to indicate that a mentor can touch balls as long as he isn't the one throwing them back onto the field (ie. he can hand them to a human player).

yes, i was going to mention domethnig on this too...

last weekend, on LI, all members of the alliance were allowed to touch the balls, but the mentors were not allowed to throw them out of the player station. there was no mention about second drivers being able to throw or not.

today, before our first match at NYC, one of the refs came up to explain about not reaching over the divider, which made perfect sense because of all the DQ's resulting from that. but, she also mentioned, "Mentors MAY NOT touch the balls". now, this conflicted with the LI regional, and with the rules in the manual. she went over to ask, and then did come back right before the match, but seeing as i was the driver, i was preoccupied getting into my "zone", so i never heard her response. if she did indeed say that mentors MAY NOT touch the balls, i belive that is a violation of the rules laid out at the beginning of January, and is in very bad taste. hopefully we'll get around this snafus before the nats.