2006 Penalties

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Originally Posted by AcesPease

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.

We were originally DQ'd because we had a bumper on our back side only that got pushed into the goal. We removed the bumper immediately after it happened. Our front and back sides are flat (save any damage that may have occurred to our hopper). I believe that that DQ occurred during the practice rounds because there was a question that was raised about the bumpers thinking that we (the team) had misread the rules. We hadn't. The following day, without any bumpers on the robot, we still received a DQ during a match. And, we got the warning I mentioned earlier during the quarterfinals. We never, to my knowledge, planned on using the 3 inch cushion.

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