pic: Oh... the penalties!

[mrmummert]

Originally Posted by nukemknight

The 30 point penalty was assessed to team 510 (on our alliance with 616 and 1610) because their robot touched another robot in a loading zone.

But after team 539 tipped 616 in the loading zone (same match - score would have ended up 0-0), one of the Head Refs (Lisa) that was watching it would not call a penalty on the blue alliance for this. From her point of view, 616 was placing a tetra on the center-left goal (when looking at it from the red side of the field)- which is true. 539 came up on the right sode of our robot and pushed us sideways into the side wall-which also is true. But, while 539 was pushing us sideways, I drove intentionally drove backwards to get into the "safe zone" of the loading station. Lisa said that it looked like they pushed us backwards into the loading station but there was no possible way for that to happen as they were pushing our robot from the side, not the front. We argued this call into and after the next match but Lisa would not change her mind.

http://www.virginiafirst.org/2005/elim_rounds_final.jpg - Elimination Chart

Hello...Mr Mummert here from 1610. I'm one of the mentor-builders.

What 616 says was true. The first semi final match our alliance won,
then we lost the next one by only 1 point,so there was a tie. This match
was to break a win-win tie. Had it been called correctly another match would
have had to been played. If we would have gone and won another
match we would have been in the finals. 539 played dirty for about
3 or 4 matches before this one,using their arm to attack teams,not just
blocking with the robot. Yes 510 did make a mistake,but they did help
keep 539 off of us so we could score. If 510 had'nt gotten the penalty
we might have won this match.

The 300 penalty was a technical mistake and was corrected to
30. Luckly we are top rookie seed and top rookie all star and have
been invited to nationals. You'll see 616 again too.