Rough Play in Rack N Roll

[Jeff K.]

Originally Posted by clean399

I was at the LA regional and I was the captain of the alliance with 1138 and 1622. 1138 was given a yellow card a people have said in this match but the reason they gave me was not because of rough play they said that 1138's robot was on the other alliances ramp during end game. I am not sure if 1138 was disabled I have heard that they were in which case they could not control their robot during that time period.

We were disabled because our arm was working randomly, much like at Boilermaker. We were trying to bring the arm back in and not hit other robots with it. A ref warned us, and as she was yelling at us and we were standing still, another robot ran into our arm. She then disabled us for that robot running into us. After we were disabled, we were dragged into the other alliance's home zone.

About tipping, teams should realize that there are consequences with certain designs of bots. If a team were to tip us over, I would not be mad, as it was our fault as much as theirs. If they were to hit us in the bumper zone legally, and we started wobbling, but then we didn't back up away from them and we tipped over, it would be our fault. If a team though were to hit out of the bumper zone, such as hit up high and tip over a robot, then that's a different story.