Running Out of Tetras

[psquared89]

Before anything, I would like to congratulate teams 330, 67, and 503, they played well and beat us fair and square.

However, after our first match with them, an Innovation First guy came by (I honestly don't know who) and told me (I was wearing the bib) that they would not move tetras from the human load over to the auto load if it ran out. Distressed by this, I went to our head referee and asked him if this was true, didn't the rules say that they would move tetras? He left, the referees conferred, and he returned to say that they would not move tetras. He said told us that he spoke with the head of all head referees and that it was decreed that tetras would not be moved.

So we played our second match, and lost 60-63. We had no rows while blue had two rows. The Autoloader had one tetra left. At the end of our third match, the Autoloader had zero tetras left. The last tetra was picked up by the Chickens at around the 10 second mark. I honestly do not believe that our team could have grabbed another tetra and capped it on the needed goal in the last 8 or so seconds when we made it back to the autoloader, however, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why, when, and / or how the rule involving not moving tetras came into place?

Once again, this is not meant to be begrudging at all, we were beaten, and beaten by a strong, quality alliance, congratulations to you, all of you. Congratulations really to everyone who put a robot on the field and made it move, that, in and of itself, is and accomplishment.