pic: YMTC: Is 41 hanging?

[Bill Gold]

Originally Posted by MOEmaniac

I understand the rules completely and i respect them but it just seems like its robbing the team of the pride that it gets for getting those 50 pts. and the hang.

Rules are rules, not matter how dumb they may be. They should always be enforced to the fullest, or there shouldn’t be rules governing certain actions that won’t be enforced. In hockey when a player accidentally goes offsides, they don’t argue the enforcement of the rule, they just feel that they hadn’t crossed the blue line before the puck. They broke by accident and were touching the ground while in their hanging position. The rules say that this scenario doesn’t count for 50 points. It’s too bad that they broke causing them not to score 50 points, but rules are rules. Get over it and move on to your next competition and keep this kind of enforcement of rules in mind when you’re designing your robot next year.

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IMHO, if you truly completely understood and respected the rules you wouldn’t feel that they were robbed. It’s sad. It’s tough. But if it were my team who wasn’t counted as hanging because of a problem like this, I wouldn’t be upset about the enforcement of the rules one bit.
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-Bill