Problem with Penalties

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

FIRST has plenty of rules without penalties. For instance, your only allowed 4 CIMs on the robot. You can't slap an extra CIM on there in return for an extra 10 pt. penalty every match... That would be crazy...

I beg to differ. The penaly for the above infraction is to not get qualified (IE no inspection sticker) or a DQ if found later on. I see this as a far stricter penalty

Now back to XaulZan11's initial post.

I agree that there were far too many penalties this year, but I do not blame the game or the rules. I, instead, lay the blame on the teams that did not take into consideration that those rules might be strictly enforced and built their robot without taking into account that not being able to completely control your robot might actually hurt your alliance.

In the 15 matchs that 1824 played in, we got 1 penalty (yeah a <G22>). Yet we lost many matches because our alliance partners got many (as many as 4 ).

The only issue I have with the penalties this year was that for some teams it was better if they didn't show up (scorewise). And that is just plain wrong.