It’s not always easy to understand why penalties were called, even when you are right beside the field. Often, the referees will talk about any controversial penalties at the end of the match to make sure they all agree on the infraction. But the game announcer might not explain the penalty very well.
Wow! Very close. It sounds like a very hard fought final.
Final match 3
1772, 364 and 57 X 118, 476 and 1745
Score
30 X 32
coment:
only a tube to the blue… both teams lifted at 12"… 1772 stopped to work again…
now a brazilian comenting this… what a pity… if the robot of 1772 didn’t break they could get more 30 pts and win in both games
It’s a very tough game. The robots can take only so much abuse before something fails. But all of the teams are winners, maybe just not the champions today.
THANK YOU very much for providing the updates.
Are you actually in Brasil right now? (If so, I think it’s funny that you are describing an event that’s much closer to me than to you - the marvels of modern technology!)
you’re welcome it was a pleasre to help… i know hos is frustrating to don’t have any information, i was in the same situation yesterday…and yeah i’m in brazil now… it is 6:24 pm here… yeah that is really funny…
yeah sometimes the things taka a bad turn… it’s a pity… i would like to see 1772 competing in atlanta… another brazilian team 
lol
PS: sorry if made grammar or spelling mistakes
See ya
I would be thrilled if the referees took the time to tell the teams receiving the penalties how, why and when the penalty was assessed.
Thrilled.
I just got home from the LSR and had a fantastic time. Congratulations to ALL of the teams! Team 1480 fought gremlins all day on Friday with our arm, but did well Saturday morning. Unfortunately a little to late, but the kids learned a lot and were VERY proud that they finally got their robot working.
Elimination rounds were incredible. And the defense was intense. The pit crews for some of the robots were kept very busy between rounds (118!) keeping their machines running. By the finals teams were scrambling for fresh batteries in those no holds barred matches.
Way to go!
Mateus, thank you very much for the play-by-play during eliminations.
Does anyone have the list of awards? The FIRST website still doesn’t have ANYTHING!
you’re welcome…
i haven’t and i still trying to discover something about that list… =/
I recall a partial list.
Sportsmanship - 57
Engineering Inspiration - 118
Chairman’s - 922
Industrial Design - 148
Motorola Quality - 476
Team Spirit - 462
Safety - 476
Sorry, that’s all I can remember at the moment. Tooootally wiped out from the finals and losing two such close matches on a robot getting pushed into non-workingness.
it was a really great pitty… i would really like to see all teams of your alliance competing in atlanta chiefly 1772… i can’t believe their bot stoped to work, you would win… 
by the way what has happened??
1772 was getting defended pretty hard by 1745. In the 2nd match, 1745 pushed them hard enough to make 1772’s treads slip off a pulley and catch inside their robot, so they couldn’t move. In the 3rd match, the same happened, only 1745 completely bent up 1772’s arm as well. So I think 1772 would have had a rough time at nationals with their arm bent like that.
Wow, sounds like some heavy D. Did 1745 get any penalty for damaging 1772’s arm?
Oh yeah, thanks for the info on the award Kevin!
Heh. No, they didn’t. We lost that match by 2 points, So I’d be taking a slightly different tone if they had been penalized. I’ll be parsing the video I recorded and uploading it to SOAP soon, so everyone can see what happened and where the awards went.
As for why none of it was posted, I here it was a communication SNAFU, and an ISDN line was ordered instead of an ethernet line, so there was no way of connecting to the internet at the regional
yeah i saw the defense… and untill now i can’t understand how they (1745) didn’t get a penalty… at least in the third match… they(1745) rammed 1772… when their(1772) arm broke
The red card was not given to team 16, it was given to us, team 418.
As the driver for 418, I would like to add that the head referee did, in my opinion, an amazing job. There were several times I did not understand, or disagreed with the penalties, and every time I talked to him after a match he patiently explained the ruling to me. Though I agree that it would be great if the referees went up to the drive team and explained penalties, considering how much they are already expected to do, I don’t know if that would be feasible.
As for the red card, I believe we (team 418) received the red card. I decided to not approach the referees on the red card decision due to the chaos and heightened emotions; however, this is my understanding of what happened:
I (the 418 robot) drove across the field in 2nd gear (around 9 ft/sec) and 1745 approached us at the same time. Having just received a 10 point ramming penalty, I slowed down, then decided to push through them to get to 118 and 476. While attempting to push them, they got on top of our robot and were close to falling. I then tried to back off, but realized we had become tangled. It is my belief, based on no evidence, that this was interpreted by the referees as us attempting to push 1745 over, which is reasonable grounds for a red card. I would just like to say, as the driver of the 418 robot, it was never my intention to flip their robot, in fact, I was just as interested in backing off as the were. Well, eventually 1745 managed to back off of us, pulling our battery cables in the process. Without our main battery plugged in, we were dead for the rest of the match.
Regardless, it has been an amazing day. Congratulations to team 118, 476 and 1745 for their hard fought win today, and thanks to 1421 and 16 for being amazing alliance partners
Webcast: I believe it would have been high speed, long distance ramming.
16 drew 30 points for home zone violation (I believe). blue in red zone…15 seconds…-30 points.
I’d just like to say that everyone did great. There is some tough competition coming though Texas, and I’m proud to say I was part of the Lone Star Regional.
Special thanks to 846 and 1750 for being great teammates.
And congrats to 118, 476 and 1745! It was really fun watching you.
As an impartial observer of the finals, there was a lot of pretty aggressive defense going on. I have to say, though, that Purple Haze was being clearly VERY aggresive on defense. The match in question was clearly a high speed collision from across 2/3s of the field. Whether an attempt was made to slow down beforehand, it was not discernable from the stands. I thought 418 had been disabled due to the DQ call and was frankly amazed 1745 survived the crash. This sort of driving was evident in prior matches and I guess the referee finally decided enough was enough.