Penalty for raising tetra higher than player station?

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Eagle Master

In our first regional FLR the Martians hit us while capping a goal. The 3 tetra's came off our arm and fell over the payers station wall. I caught them and threw to the side of the field.

At our next regional GLR this penalty was announced by the head ref. and I asked what team would be disabled if a team holding tetras was pushed by another team and broke the plane of the players field. He said that the robot holding the tetras would be disabled. I disagree with his answer, when you are being pushed by another robot you have little control of your robot. I believe the team doing the pushing is the cause and if anyone is to be disabled it should be them.

I saw a situation very much like this while refereeing at Detroit. We disabled both the robot that put a tetra over the wall and the pushing robot.