pic: FRC 2108, 540

[GBIT]

has anyone else noticed noticed that we havn't seen much of the dreaded yellow card.
at GSR bots were slaming into each other, but i didn't see the card until the finals. even then it was for bad sportsmanship not robot violence.

antway cool pic hope your bot was ok and that is my observation one of the new game elements.

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by GBIT

has anyone else noticed noticed that we havn't seen much of the dreaded yellow card.
at GSR bots were slaming into each other, but i didn't see the card until the finals. even then it was for bad sportsmanship not robot violence.

At VCU the Yellow Card was given to team 122 (NASA Knights) for habitually exceeding 72" outside of the home zone. 122 was using their ramp to help them to block the Rack. Team 414 was also given a yellow card, for playing stiff defense.

[Michael Corsetto]

Yeah, that Rack is actually starting to scare me, its tricky business trying to score without getting caught on the rack, especially while you have defense on your bot. I almost had a heart attack a couple times seeing how close we got to tipping after being hooked on the spider feet, but thankfully we haven't tipped happened yet, even with our 10 foot tower sticking up the entire match. Hooray for low CG's!

Nice move "unsticking" your alliance partner. I always love it when I see robots uprighting other bots, like that time when I believe 25 kept 968 from tipping at the championships last year. That was insane

[BRosser314]

Great example of teamwork, Congrats on the win guys

[VanMan]

Team 843, our Canadian friends, got a yellow flag for going into the other teams player zone. Thats why we were DQed.

[wilsonmw04]

we were on 414's team when they got that yellow flag. I didn't see anything wrong with what they were doing. It wasn't anything that i didn't see 10 times before that match and 15 times after. I wish someone would define "agressive defense" for me. they weren't tipping or ramming from a large distance.

[kjohnson]

I guess that Lisa (Head Ref at VCU) just decided that 414 had been too aggressive with their defense throughout their qualification matches. Maybe she just wanted to prevent 414 from getting themselves into the situation of accidentally tipping another bot and being DQed.