paper: Spanking the Children

[Sparky3D]

I understand why the technical fouls are so high this year, with only one game piece it would be easy to completely shut down an opposing alliance's scoring by just pinning the robot with the ball or stealing their ball. The problem I have is that fact that it seems like every infraction this year results in a technical foul and most of the time, a loss. Minor infractions that don't affect the flow of the match shouldn't be an automatic loss.

I really wish the GDC would go through and apply their standard "if you break rule X, foul. If rule X is broken repeatedly or deliberately, technical foul and possible red card" language to most of the penalties in this game. Then the ref's would have the option of calling a basic foul for all the penalties that really didn't have a noticeable impact on the other alliance.