Mayhem in Merrimack, Final Thoughts

[Ryan Foley]

Speaking of the clones wars;

For those who werent there, heres a quick explanation.
Teams 549, 571 and 190 all brought 2 robots to the event. So, before eliminations, we had all 3 teams have their primary robots on one alliance, and all the secondary robots on the other. Apparently, they all decided to switch around. To my understanding, all the A robots were started on the correct side, yet their control systems were on the other side, so we would think the bots were correctly alligned; the B bots were switched in the same way. So you can imagine our confused state of mind (refs, Andy, etc) when the robots started scoring for the wrong alliance.

The match ended up being 90-10 red, however we ruled that every time a robot removed an opposing tetra from the auto-loader, it was a 10pt penalty, so after all the penalties, it was a 0-0 tie.

After further reviewing, the teams using the HP zones should actually have been disabled (since loading a tetra on a bot that isnt your own is grounds for disabling both robots). Although, the control systems were on the right side so that the bot actually was disabled, so we let it go.

It was quite the match.

Suggestion: more qualifying matches. I was having so much fun it was rather dissapointing that we were done that quickly.

Anyways, Mayhem was amazing. I had a great time reffing the event, and I commend 1058 and 549 for agreeing to replay the last match, as to not win from a penalty. All the teams did an amazing job.

Thank you to my fellow refs, I had a great time working with you. Of course, thank you to 166 team for hosting the whole thing, you did an amazing job. You were very organized, helpful, and friendly. You also did a great job of taking care of all the little things that helped really make it a great event, like Jess said. I really look forward to coming back in 2006.