2006 Season - The Negative

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Nimmy

the other issue I think that needs to be adressed is the rematches
our robot didn't work for an entire game, a game that was an easy win (to say the least)

IFI agreed with us that the problem was with THEM and not US, and yet we didn't get neither a rematch nor qualifying points, or any compinsation for that matter...

What was the issue that caused your robot not to work? Was it an on-field problem (e.g. the IFI radios weren't talking to your OI via the competition port) or was it an internal glitch (e.g. bad fuse on the RC)? FIRST is specific about only awarding rematches for field failures—while IFI might have admitted fault with respect to some on-robot issue, it isn't grounds for a rematch.

But with respect to qualifying points, you should have received whatever your alliance received, unless you were disqualified for some other reason. If that was overlooked, you definitely should have contacted the head referee, and arranged to check the scoring database for the error.