pic: 2945 loses battery in Colorado Regional elimitation rounds

[Nate Edwards]

Originally Posted by NOV8R

When 2945 lost its battery the head offical walked briskly to their driver station and hit the emergency stop button. That's why they didn't move any more with the battery still connected,.

I was the referee that made this call, Interesting, but yes we did disable the robot for safety. It is clearly outlined in the rules to disable the robot. We had to disable two robots on the blue side in this match, the other for having a coach handle the trident. Unfortunately I had to make send both messages to the head ref who ran over to disable both bots. I was the referee that was counting the balls in case the ball counter malfunctioned for this match (and checking the alliance zone violations), but interesting enough I had more action with that then some of the matches when I was a side ref.