2006 Penalties

[AcesPease]

Originally Posted by indieFan

Team 1070 was DQ'd at the AZ regional during seeding matches this weekend because of this. We ended up getting another warning about it during the quarterfinals. However, both Jason Morrella and Dave Lavery were looking at our robot asking how this was possible since it clearly wasn't designed to be able to go in. I'm hoping that there will be changes made to this rule, but I'm not holding my breath.

indieFan

In Hartford some teams made minor modifications to their bots to avoid incursion penalties. The refs were firm on the calls. I didn't count, but there were a lot of 5 point and DQ incursion penalties called. I think many of us thought we had 3 inches to spare and never thought how hard it was going to be to call it, so if you somehow planned on using the 3 inch cushion, you were almost guaranteed to be called for the incursion.

Bill Pease
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