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[Starke]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

One of the things I noticed throughout NJ that was almost aggravating to me was how many teams didn't drop their keepers at the end of autonomous, regardless of where they were. Not only is it technically a rule that you have to drop your keeper, but there were many times where if teams had just dropped their keeper, it may have just landed on the spider leg and counted.

At the Finger Lakes Regional, the referees physically took the keepers from robots that did not score them in autonomous before the teleoperated period began. There seems to be a lack of consistency.

[ldeffenb]

Originally Posted by Starke340

At the Finger Lakes Regional, the referees physically took the keepers from robots that did not score them in autonomous before the teleoperated period began. There seems to be a lack of consistency.

At the Florida Regional, they seemed to only take away the Keepers that were too close to being scored. If the keeper dropped to the floor or inside the rack, they just left it sit and continued the match.

In one of the semi-finals, the referee entered the field and was removing the keeper when the signal for tele-operated play sounded anyway. You should have seen him scrambling to get off the field!

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386

PS. Sorry about the previous duplicate post. I was called away from my PC and didn't realize it had already posted once and now I can't find a way to delete it!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Starke340

At the Finger Lakes Regional, the referees physically took the keepers from robots that did not score them in autonomous before the teleoperated period began. There seems to be a lack of consistency.

The refs told me they had a reason and rhyme to removing the keepers, but I forgot. It was something about if the keeper moved in the gripper it was taken out.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Starke340

At the Finger Lakes Regional, the referees physically took the keepers from robots that did not score them in autonomous before the teleoperated period began. There seems to be a lack of consistency.

Originally Posted by ldeffenb

At the Florida Regional, they seemed to only take away the Keepers that were too close to being scored. If the keeper dropped to the floor or inside the rack, they just left it sit and continued the match.

That seemed to be the rule of thumb at NJ, Lynn- if they were really close, they would take/pull them away. 375's incident was the first and only time it ever happened (that I remember)- most teams were pretty good about dropping it ASAP, and I think 375 was more a freak accident than anything else.

[AV_guy007]

I agree it is a very good I idea to drop your keeper at the end of autonomous. At NJ a team dropped their keeper while attempting to score on the middle spider and ended up capping it on the lowest one . (I can't remember witch team, If you know i wold love to be informed.)

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by AV_guy007

I agree it is a very good I idea to drop your keeper at the end of autonomous. At NJ a team dropped their keeper while attempting to score on the middle spider and ended up capping it on the lowest one . (I can't remember witch team, If you know i wold love to be informed.)

That was us, Team 25, during Finals match 2.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

That was us, Team 25, during Finals match 2.

I remember that!!() But do you guys see what I mean- even if it's not where you intended, it still may end up being beneficial.

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