<R16> penalty

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by jgannon

If I had to bet money, I'd say that penalties will be given for incidental infractions, and yellow cards will be given for repeated violations. This is how the 72" rule was enforced last year. If you broke the rule, you lost ten points. If your ramps fell down in the middle of the field every match, then eventually you got a yellow card.

There is no provision in the rules for a 10-point penalty. As I recall, neither was there a provision for a penalty for exceeding the 72" square last year - the correct sanction should have been to disable the robot.

Estimating an 80" distance this year is not much different than estimating 72" last year. The difference is that 72" is roughly 2 robot lengths, so if a single ramp fell down the refs could estimate whether it was wider than 2 robots or not. This year it will be 80", most likely measured across a diagonal of the robot, so the estimation will be somewhat harder.

Since the penalty is a Yellow Card to be displayed at the conclusion of the match, the Head Referee could ask that the robot be put into the suspect configuration following the match, and a measurement could be taken.