are you penaltyless?

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

We went to the Finger Lakes Regionals and we think we did not have a single penalty for impeding a line or for anything else (outside of practice matches.....I rammed=P).

...How do you impede a line? Is that even possible?


I don't have any penalties! Then again, I don't have a team, either....

[1086VEX]

team 1086 was penalty free until the second match of the finals!! (which im very proud of because im an operator )

[DarkFlame145]

I'm glad to see other teams that are penalty free.

[Elgin Clock]

We only have one that I know of. In our first match, we had a tricky situation with our drive train, and our alliance decided we were going to start nearest to the line for the lane division.

Needless to say, the bot lurched forward & immediately went a half a foot foot over the line & stopped (not completely) but we got that one penalty during hybrid mode...

Oh well.

Starting nearest to that lane divider line at the beginning of the match can be tricky sometimes.

Be careful everyone!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

I... we think we did not have a single penalty for impeding a line or for anything else

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

...How do you impede a line? Is that even possible?

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

that's what we call it when you break the line.

That's called "breaking the plane by moving in a clockwise direction" - see <G22>. You Impede other robots - see <G40>.

[Uberbots]

we had several breaking the plane penalties, two ramming penalties, but no others.

[smurfgirl]

Originally Posted by Uberbots

we had several breaking the plane penalties, two ramming penalties, but no others.

I was going to answer, but it looks like Billy already did. To clarify, all the breaking the plane penalties were from hybrid, when we hit other robots and turned around over a line we had already crossed.

The two ramming penalties occured when we tried to zoom around the track with our trackball so we could hurdle, but miscalculated by an inch or so, and hit the corner of a bot hurdling in the opposing alliance's home zone. They seem ridiculous to me, since I knew what our drivers were trying to do, but you never know what the refs saw.

[dsmoker]

We also only had 2 breaking the plane penalties in our first two matches: one when part of our gripper went back over the line trying to place at the end of the match from the other side of the overpass and one in hybrid when we, like the uberbots, we nudged back over the line.

[gam3fr3ak1]

as the driver for 435, i can proudly say that we have 0 penalties, and we won the VCU regional (thanks again 1086 and 1522)

=D

[bigbeezy]

we didnt get any penalties Friday or Saturday. and the only one we got on thursday was due to hybrid mode malfunction...

[TomZ]

At the Detroit Regional my team only had 1 penalty because we supposedly impeded traffic when there was a jam in one turn and all 6 robots were in it and we were the only one to get a penalty. We asked the refs and they said while in the bunch up we were bumped [to pass] and we didn't move.

[sportman3333333]

Team 999 had no penalties the entire weekend.

[Jimmy Cao]

We haven't gotten any breaking the plane penalties, but we got a few "entanglement/aggressive driving" penalties.

[ParkerF]

Originally Posted by GeeForce

I've had 20 pushups from <G22> and 10 for going for the other alliance's ball.

Hah, I'm glad to see Copiolo saw the light with the push-ups!

I've just got my ten from the Semi-Finals in St. Louis for counter-clockwise...We'll see how I do at Bayou.

[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by francistexas

Hah, I'm glad to see Copiolo saw the light with the push-ups!

I've just got my ten from the Semi-Finals in St. Louis for counter-clockwise...We'll see how I do at Bayou.

Yeah thanks a loottt for that