Team update 16

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Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle

Although i have to agree with the change in the ranking system, i cannot say that i agree with the GDC changing the rules on the 3" penalty. It seems like they took a critical engineering problem out of the equation, i cannot speak for everyone, but as soon as we saw the problem occur on the robot, we designed a solution. I was surprised how many people hadn't designed a robot to prevent themselves from doing that. Dean and Woodie even brought that point up at kickoff.

They may have eliminated the penalty if the incursion is accidental, but they did not eliminate the incentive to not have incursions. Many teams I witnessed that got balls stuck underneath them spent substantial time, in some cases up to a minute to get the ball out from underneath them.