Physical matches

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Posted by Mike Kulibaba.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #88, TJ², from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional and Johnson and Johnson.

Posted on 7/13/99 4:53 PM MST


In Reply to: Physical matches posted by Adam Hathaway on 7/12/99 2:25 PM MST:



: I thought that the level of pushing and fighting among teams in Rumble made for more exciting matches. Thats the kind of excitment that will get more bystanders and average people involved in watching a FIRST event. Should FIRST go back to allowing teams to tip over others intentionally, or maybe just loosen up on the rules? Any ideas?

I think pushing and tipping is a part of the competition, but it also makes for more broken robots. Just ask anyone who was at the 1997 Rumble at the Rock and saw TJ² get obliterated by Naval Undersea because they used a little tipping mechanism. This year in the quarterfinals, Ethicon and Nasa Ames Gunn High school played two teams( I can't exactly remember who they were) In the second match, Gunn purposely knocked over a robot that was clearing not trying to get on the puck and they definately had there floppies over 8 feet and I think the refs made the right call by calling a DQ because just going out to knock over a robot shouldn't be what this competition is about. Back in 1997 when my team's Robot got knocked over and totally smashed in half(and I mean right in half) I think it took away from the competition( I also might be a little biased cause it was my team that got toppled. But you do bring up a good point about people want to see Robot's banging and pushing and falling. I just think there has to be a happy medium. And I think this competition might have been close to a happy medium cause you got the tipping and pushing but it stayed away from the all out mayhem that could of taken place. Thanks For a great year

Mike Kulibaba Team 88 TJ²
'Kuli'