2010 Highest Scoring Match

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Cory

I'm surprised to hear that. The rules seemed pretty clear that if you were on a bump it was no man's land and you should expect contact outside the bumper zone.

In DC, there are being VERY strict about rough play. On several occasions today, we saw teams barely touch another robot, but because they were sideways and had high traction wheels, and their CG is high, they tip over with hardly any force. We accidently tipped a bot, 1024, and several others did too. Yellow card was the result. Also a team just sat on side of the bump, not moving, and because another team tried to get on the bump to do a hanging maneuver, they tipped over when they ran into the other robot - EVEN though it was stationary. That stationary robot got a Yellow card.

The penalties are way out of control and decided way too many matches.

Also your control board better be ready to go as soon as you get up there. We "crashed" our Classmate and had to reboot, but because they were behind time-wise, they wouldn't wait and we had to play a dead match. While another team forgot to charge their Classmate and were allowed to put in a spare battery, which took a lot longer. Just kinda stinks...

Week 1 - gotta love it!!