Gunn & Napa DQ VIDEO: DECIDE YOURSELF

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Posted by Andy Grady, Coach on team #42, P.A.R.T.S, from Alvirne High School and Daniel Webster College.

Posted on 3/3/99 10:10 PM MST


In Reply to: Gunn & Napa DQ VIDEO: DECIDE YOURSELF posted by Ben Chui on 3/3/99 1:03 AM MST:



I looked at the video over and over again. Without seeing the drivers and coaches i wouldn't be able to tell if the tipping was intentional or not. My observations of this were that the Bay Bombers were not engaging the puck when they lifted up and never did. Nasa Gunn many times lifted there arm up and down, many times catching a part of the Bay Bomber machine. Now the part that caught me was at one point the Gunn robot started to climb the puck and fell back down. They were pinned, however when there machine moved foward that one time the arm caught the Bay Bomber machine and tipped it. Now don't know if it was intentional or not, however Gunn did use that arm in some forceful situations at times, even knocking a machine cleanly off the puck. I think that the refs saw this earlier and kept an even closer eye on the Gunn machine. When Gunn made the tip, intentional or not, the refs drew the line. This brings me to my question, where should the refs draw the line in contact? I saw a few instances in both regionals that could have been questionable.
Good Luck to all
Andy Grady