Rules that are [not] getting called at Regionals, the +s and -s

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by nehalita

note: you might notice that i'm a little sore, yes, it's true. i'm not going to mention what or when because i know it's not the opponent's fault nor the judge's fault. things happen.

We all need to take a lesson from nehalita. FIRST (and CD) needs more of this and less whinging.

Changing topics abruptly:

I saw what struck me as a very interesting (!?) call by our head ref at STL yesterday. I didn't observe the play itself, but did see the position of the robots just afterward. Bluabot had pushed Redabot so that Redabot extended more than three inches into a corner goal. Redabot was DQ'd for the incursion and Bluabot was DQ'd also. One ref thought that Bluabot's DQ was called for ramming, while another thought it was called for intentionally causing the incursion. Since it occurred in the elimination rounds, the result of this double-DQ was a replay.

Can someone who was directly involved please offer clarification, or correction if I got the story wrong?