2007 Boilermaker Regional!!!

[kramarczyk]

Originally Posted by cgredalertcc

I have to say that in comparisson to the regional in Wisconsin 1741 recently attended the Boilermaker referees allowed teams to be much much more agressive and it seemed like some of the defensive teams were driving at a near malicious level...
In the eliminations one team tipped two of the opposite alliances robots (completely flipping one and putting another in a situation where they would have tipped without the quick action of their third partner). The team that did this left the match without even a yellow card or a penalty.

The tipping in both of the referenced cases was due to entanglement with the rack. The bot that completely flipped tangled in the rack which lifted it's wheels and, in the refs words, "drove up" the defensive bot resulting in it's turn-over. The second case was similar. Offensive bot tangled in the rack and got pushed into a tipping position. The defensive bot did back off once they realized the offensive bot was helpless, but it did take them too long to realize it. They did receive a verbal warning from the head ref at the end of the match.

I also can't let this match go with mentioning the phenominal alliance play that got the second bot out of the rack and back into the game... wicked awesome.