More Scoring Issues...

[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

I saw one time for sure where they got 5 lines and 1 ball, and were assigned 36 points. To me, 5 lines and 1 ball is (5 lines x 4 pts/line) + (1 ball x 8pts/ball) = 28 pts, perhaps with a 2pt addition for a 'lap'

Was 1114, by chance, playing with two other robots at the time? Is it possible that those other robots crossed 1 line each?

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Also, I think the refs were a bit trigger happy with <G22> on a few occasions (calling it when it didn't really happen), and also EXTREMELY trigger happy with <G42>, Hurdler interference. They were calling it if a passing team even so much as brushed a robot in the process of hurdling... but they weren't calling it when we (1075) were being impeded while trying to GET close enough to the overpass. (We're a launcher bot). Which is fine, as I don't think that was the intent, but it was irritating, as we got called on <G42> a couple times, and were never once helped by it.

[disclaimer: this is spoken as a driver] At Detroit and St. Louis, we felt that hurdler interference is one of the calls that wasn't really made as much as it should have been. Satisfying the act of HURDLING (ball higher than lane divider OR moving towards overpass with ball), we saw several times where teams would get wrecked and no call was made. We tried our best to discuss it with the head ref after our matches, but often to no avail. At WMR this weekend (and apparently Waterloo as well), we noticed that they were being MUCH more strict on this call. I feel that this is one where it's better to be fairly overzealous in giving the benefit of the doubt to the hurdling team.