Team Update #14

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

They might have well said "no pinning is permitted" If it takes your bot 1 second to travel 6 feel then you establish a pin then hold for 4 seconds and have to drive away.

There are 2 problems I have with this is 1) it gives the refs another thing to pass a judgment on ie. What is 6 feet. Before the count itself was always in question but now they have to judge time and distance. and 2) what happens if the robot who is pinned makes it impossible for your robot to get 6 feet away, or in another case if you are trapped in by another robot 4 ft behind you.

I understand the intent of the rule is to discourage pinning a team to completely shut down scoring, but i am not sure they didn't open up Pandora's box of bad/tough calls by the implementation of this rule.

Agreed.
In what seems to be such a low scoring game, additional (and questionable) ref calls could cause some serious discontent.