Ball Bouncing Out of Bounds?

[Justin Ridley]

So during an early match at Lone Star we managed to bounce the ball over the opposite alliance station a couple times. Afterwards we were warned we would receive a penalty and an eventual a yellow flag if we continued to do this.

Afterwards we toned down the launcher and tried to be careful where we launched from to prevent the bounce. We however got a "lucky" bounce on a Saturday match and received a 10pt penalty.

I'm not saying that this might not have been legit, I suppose the refs to have authority to deem something unsafe and penalize it, but I am curious if any other regionals saw this penalty. It was a bit frustrating worrying about an unintentional side effect of wanting to be able to shoot from distance on the field that didn’t seem to be outlined in the rules.

Regardless, I suppose next weekend we’ll dial launcher power down from an eleven to about a ten.