can there be agressive play?

[gburlison]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

No, I was just saying that there are times there are agressive play in FIRST. We had a built in weakness in our robot (too top heavy) and it got tipped over easily and other teams at the championship took advatage of it and slammed us often. It was fair. If you don't like getting tipped don't build a robot that tips.

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

At 1:29 left in the match 662 raced across the platform and threw us off the platform to the floor.

As the coach for 662 I must say that it was never our intention to tip over your robot. Since our robot was basically a one trick pony ( we could hang and thats about it ), our strategy was to hang and stop other robots from hanging. So we were just trying to stop you from gaining access to the platform. As you said your robot tipped over easily and our driver was a little to aggressive.

To add something new to the discussion, during regional competition at the Colorado Regional, in one match we had an opponent slam into wall in front of our driver hard enough to move the wall. You could feel the carpet move beneath you feet. This happened during autonomous mode and since our robot had 15 inch wheels, our opponent just sort of ran under one side of our robot and upset our autonomous mode. I assume that if it had been a direct hit, our robot would been severely damaged.