2006 Penalties

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

Also, the fact that you measured the front of your robot and its only 2.5" long doesnt mean that for every possible angle and condition it will not exceed 2.5". For example, if your bot lifts up its front wheels it may be able to extend further into the goal.

Bottom line is, if your bot triggers the ball counter you should expect a penalty.

I agree with you, but we didn't go past the black line and into the scoring panel... there was no mess up with the scoring. The team on the opposing alliance that was stationed beside the goal even said that we didn't go in...
and we made sure that from pretty much every angle we couldn't go in.
I really appreciate the refs and what they do for us, but I am just trying to point out that all of the calls they made were not perfect, and some were downright unfair. I also want to point out that the rule was 3", and we were a full half of an inch under that... If you want me not to be snippity about a half of an inch, then somebody talk to the refs about giving a penalty to a team because the driver had their toe over the line during autonomous...
The thread is about weather or not all of the calls were fair, and I am just out to prove that they weren't.