Intentionally blocking traffic in Hybrid

[Laxphan1525]

Originally Posted by Laaba 80

I was at the midwest regional today, and it was obvious that robots moved forward to block 1024's amazing autonomous modes. The refs never even said anything. It is not like this happened just once, teams were doing it to them all day. I also didnt see refs calling impeding during teleoperated mode.
Joey

I was competing at Midwest Regional Event this weekend and you could see on many occasions the refs weren't calling the impeding traffic rule. In fact I think they were more concerned about the ridiculous cross traffic rule. When you’re stuck in a small quadrant with three or four other robots it’s hard to maneuver around. Why are teams penalized for barely crossing the line when clearly there attempting to get around and increase the flow of traffic? As opposed to sitting and waiting in a short game for everyone to clear out. I mean they were even penalizing teams who crossed the lines during autonomous. I think this rule is obnoxious because clearly teams aren't trying to drive clockwise to mess with the game they are just trying to get around the track.

As for 1114 case I say why should they be given a yellow card because they can race around the track 16 feet per second. It’s not like they have control over where teams go. Especially when teams started to pick up on how they can ruin there lap. I could understand if they hey guys why don't you tone done the autonomous a little bit but giving them a yellow card right away I think that was a bad call.