Rosie stuffs Thrust

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Entanglement refers to the state of being entangled.

Entangled can be defined as: to make tangled; ensnarl; intertwine

I would say that according to the above definitions, Thrust was entangled in the goal, with no way of getting out.

As a person coming from a driver's background, I look at the game in a certain way. I look at pushing 1501 into the goal as an easy way to remove them from the match, because I know that they cannot get out of the goal, because I saw that they cannot even navigate the ramp going up to the goal. I would say that most people were aware of this when playing defense against Thrust.

By your own definition, they are NOT entangled. They are held in the goal by the lip at the front edge of the goal and 1501s inability to climb that lip. The goal area is legal for robots to enter, and thus teams are allowed by the rules to pin (for up to 5 seconds) another robot in the goal. Thats what Rosie did.

Was it nice? no. Was it legal? Yep. Was it GP? It's within the rules so yes.

As far as contact during self righting goes ... it probably should have been a yellow card, but it's difficult to see what the refs saw. Rosies driver is on the other side of the field and may not have seen the self righting attempt or even the full orientation of THRUST (they are a small bot). I'm not excusing Rosie on that count, but it's a refs judgement call on a split second action.

Anyways, THRUST, welcome to New England style defense . I hope nothing was damaged. Your little bot is pretty cool. Good luck and it's nice to see other 4-H teams doing well.