Week 3 Impressions of Rack n' Roll

[burkechrs1]

One thing we realized at SVR this year is that it is not possible to win a match if there is only one scoring robot on your alliance and the other alliance has a ramp bot. That was the case with us a lot. After we racked up 290 points in the first match of the regional with team 100, they just double or sometimes triple teamed us so we couldnt score then got 60 points for ramps. Our alliance did great trying to keep the opposing alliance away from us but 3 robots coming at us is to much to defend against. one thing I did notice about rough defense was in the first round of quarter finals we attempted to score and 190 pushed us into the rack and ended up spinning the rack about 90 degrees. I was heated and insisted it was a pinning penalty because I couldn't move but I went to the head ref and asked him to clarify. He said that as long as we have a keeper in our possession the other alliance could pin us against the rack as long as they wanted. I thought it was a wrong call but I didnt argue and ended up having to drop many ringers in the match to follow im order to get 190 to stop pinning us... We lost, but props to 190, that was the most intense defense I have ever experienced in 3 years of driving.