Breaking the plane

[Josh Hambright]

Originally Posted by robo hottie71

So basically a scoring team that is being defended is being penalized. I guess we should just change this game to have one goal - the center goal - because going over the edge barriers is also a disable.

Its not an issue of penalizing anybody, its an issue of maintaining a safe environment for people to compete in. One of the first things stated in the referee manual is that the main concern of the refs is safety, along with scoring the game, and making sure no other rules are violated.

Many teams found new ways to score tetras on the center goal without going over the glass, often it involved changing their strategy, but teams that persisted in driving full speed toward the center goal and then stopping causing the tetra they were carrying to swing out over the glass, were consistently disabled.

There were not nearly as many disablings for the safety issues on saturday as there were on friday, simply because people began to play smarter and play safer, not that the robots weren't being disabled and continued to create a safety issue.

On another note, it is not the referees who make the field, or design the game, or choose the height of the plays station wall, but it is the referees who are called upon to make sure that the game is carried out in the safest manner possible.