Penalty Points at Regionals?

[nuggetsyl]

Originally Posted by dlavery

That one was caught by the refs, and the team penalized.

If I recall correctly, like Portland, I don't think that there was one case of goaltending called during the VCU regional. Either everyone has decided that capping the opposing goals just isn't worth the effort, or everyone has become so paranoid about goaltending after all the discussions that they are scared off. Either way, it doesn't appear to be a problem.

-dave

I am thinking there are a few reasons why teams have not gaoltended.

1.Human player are scoring there 6 balls so fast you do not want to give them 2x

2. there robot can not pick up the x2 ball well, so if they do pick up a ball they not going to score for other team

3. games are soooooo close in points you can not take -10 points

[Justin Stiltner]

One issue that I still fail to see why a penalty flag was thrown was this.
During the finals match at vcu our robot #388 goal capper was tipped to the side and our arm came to rest on the railing around the field, we dident touch anything outside the field at any time, and a penalty flag wasent thrown then, however after looking at the robot for a few seconds while determining how to stand it back up we lowered our arm, wich pulled it back into the field and began extending our grippers also inside the field in an attempt to raise us, still dident touch anything outside the field, well the grippers dident have the power to stand us back up so we begin to retract our gripper and lower our arm completely in so as to get it out of the way, and we called our alliance partner (team 33 )over to try and help us stand back up, then and only then does a ref decide to throw a 25pt penalty flag and have us disabled no part of our robot ever touched anything outside of the field evean without this peanilty we wouldent have won that match, however we may have been able to stand up and win it. it just worries me that they disabled a robot that was still in bounds and had done nothing illegeal.

[Bcahn836]

Team 836 got a penelty 5 matches after our match. we were sitting in our pit celebrating a victory and an official comes to our pit. It seems that our human player bounced a 5 pt ball off the 2X ball and made a goal three times. However since the judge didn't tell us about it they docked us ten pts instead of 30 pts which was very nice but it was just enough to lose the win and get a tie. Now I don't think that is fair what so ever do you?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Bcahn836

Team 836 got a penelty 5 matches after our match. we were sitting in our pit celebrating a victory and an official comes to our pit. It seems that our human player bounced a 5 pt ball off the 2X ball and made a goal three times. However since the judge didn't tell us about it they docked us ten pts instead of 30 pts which was very nice but it was just enough to lose the win and get a tie. Now I don't think that is fair what so ever do you?

Truthfully, I think yours was the one I was thinking about. It's totally fair. You broke a rule. You actually got let off easy!

[Bcahn836]

Originally Posted by JosephM

Truthfully, I think yours was the one I was thinking about. It's totally fair. You broke a rule. You actually got let off easy!

True and we won't do it again but still wouldn't you like to know about it then. I think if my human player was told not to do that when it happened it wouldn't have been done three times. But on most infractions you are told right then and there but in this case was not.

[Ryan Foley]

let's see. We got 30 points docked for entering the ball corral 3 times (not that I am complaining about it, it was my fault since I was driving, ref was just doing their job). We fixed the problem by doing what Andy mentioned earlier, attaching a piece on top of the part that the balls come out of so that it's to tall to fit inside the corral.

Although, during elimination rounds at BAE, a bot got tipped over. It used its arm pushing against the field barrier to right itself. At 1 point it had a good 1ft or 1.5ft pf its arm outside the field, abd it touched the ground. surprisingly, they never got any penalty. Maybe the ref just didnt catch it.

The most popular penalty is robots entering the corrals. The next one would have to be the human players reaching into the field to get a ball. Those are the only 2 I saw.