At the SoCal state tournament, team 62A was on an alliance that got to the semifinals. It was posted on robotevents and in many documents from vex and the RECF that all tournament semifinalists qualify to worlds. Then, it was ruled that 62 played illegal defense, resulting in a DQ from semi finals…

who posted the video^ @EasierSaidThanDone

@aaronlucas what i dont understand is my team was another heavily defensive robot at the tournament and we did the same strat of dragging the mobile goals to a corner however we were never dq for doing that but just scolded by the refs

@meng honestly if your worried about the rules for worlds the biggest don’t i’ve seen all season is playing defense, its a bad path to take sadly over the years it use to be praised as a good strategy but not it really seems that vex is pushing towards offensive only.

I apologize for my silence through this process, but this has now gone out of my hands and the best thing I can do is to remain quiet until told otherwise. I promise to clear everything up, but as of now, we haven’t even been told why our spot was revoked. Thanks for all of the support, I’ll check b…

[image] Ballard: No… I was not actually at the event. But I am familiar with the California region. Obviously, I have questions just like everyone else… What I meant is… it must be frustrating to have so few events so early in the season (to my knowledge) and then go to the US-dominated Worlds w…

[image] CleansweepmanJr: @aaronlucas what i dont understand is my team was another heavily defensive robot at the tournament and we did the same strat of dragging the mobile goals to a corner however we were never dq for doing that but just scolded by the refs It depends on the way you intera…

@Cameron Schiller Wish you the best of luck man you deserve your spot.

[image] xRiloKOTBx: I was at Pomona and I believe that 62 was disqualified from the tournament with the G1 hammer, in that the were probably arguing with the refs and they thought their behavior was inappropriate. I believe that being dqued from a tournament does take away your worlds ticket, ho…

[image] meng: But my main concern is really like what @CleansweepmanJr says - I am not comfortable with the current defensive-play bashing that is happening for this season and how it has (maybe unconsciously) affected some referees’ calls. In the FL State Tournament an alliance was DQ’d in t…

[image] TriDragon: In the FL State Tournament an alliance was DQ’d in the second game of the QF for mogo hoarding. This changed the score from about (not exactly sure off the top of my head) 115-44 to 0-44. A third match was played and the DQ’d alliance lost, so they lost the QF. Issue is that …

62 Qualification Outrage

VEX V5 General Discussion

aaronlucas March 1, 2018, 8:54pm 67

It depends on the way you interact with the goal.

As for the specific <SG6> violation, check my post above for the video and a description of it.

I have posted this Q&A for clarification:

Teams should probably avoid using a mobile goal intake to move opponent goals until a clarification is provided or the rule is updated.