On Rules, Referees, and Rewards (aka Penalties)

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by Steve W

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This is a big one for me. Tetra over the players station. Where is that rule written down?
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Section_4-The_Game:
4.3.2 Safety
<S01> If at any time the ROBOT operation is deemed unsafe, by the determination of the referees, the ROBOT
will be disabled for the remainder of the match.

We disagree with your opinion that a tetra swinging over the glass and back is not a safety issue. The swinging back part is after the fact; it became unsafe when it cleared the glass, as evidenced by a number of people getting boinked.

So what are we to do? If we wait for one to fall, it's too late. If we wait until it scares one of us, then which one. Some of us just don't scare easy.

It is often the case that the best way out of a bad situation is to try and not get into one. That's one reason for the interpretation. Another is that it's just not right when one end of the field gets a team disabled and the other doesn't because the ref at one is timid and the other fearless.

The call is as easy for the teams to accept as it is to enforce; it either brakes the plane, or it doesn't. The result is that teams slow down and carry the tetra lower.