2008 Boston Regional

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by raceteen48

ok, I don't like that they put the and/or in there, they should have made it one of the others, because the way i read it, the "or" was meant for when they are stopped next to the rack putting it over and are above the rack.

but either way it doesn't make a difference, I saw the match, and 69 was coming around the turn, and 125 backed in front of them, and hyper hit them, they then were sitting still i believe, and if hyper were to have backed up they would have broken a plane and gotten a ten point penalty, they really had to keep pushing or else they would have gotten penalized for something else, idk, i guess it was just a bad call all around. it was in QF4 match 1 btw can be found here http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...p?matchid=9738

and Congrats rosie on the award

Honestly I thought it was a legitimate call. We have a strong relationship with HYPER so right after the match we exchanged thoughts and were both fine with the way that call went. That alliance went on to win the QF anyway so no harm done, HYPER is alright in our books.

I talked to benge and he reiterated to me that a shooter has the same protection if we are moving toward the overpass. We were moving toward the overpass until HYPER hit us. Thats the way I see it.

Originally Posted by commodoredl

With shooter robots it is sometimes difficult to tell and sometimes annoying with calling the "Impeding Hurdling" penalty. I know that 578 ran into tons of problems with not getting that called on their opponents. In one match we were trying to launch and actually rammed from behind as our arm lowered to kick the ball. We only kicked it about 4 feet high because of that and no penalty was called, but we still won the match.
On a team like 125, their shooter device was located on the robot and "loaded" very slowly (I think), so a ref would have a hard time knowing if it was trying to hurdle. Some liberties would have to be taken to be fair to the shooter team, especially if they actually are in the act of hurdling without raising any sort of arm.

It takes around 4-5 seconds for us to load, but for 90% of the match we are loaded anyway. We were making sure we had a clear lane to the overpass as well as making sure we were straight on, however we were still attempting to move toward the overpass and were prohibited at doing that.


Congrats to everyone at Boston...it was an awesome event.