Chief Delphi - Record Number of Replays in Elims?

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Originally Posted by Gregor (Post 1370496)

A simple solution to that would be to not shoot the ball at a referee...

I don't think that many teams are purposely shooting balls at the referees, the cameramen, or out of bounds. Other robots hit your robot and affect your shots. Shots don't always go to your human player. It's part of the game. I also don't see how this is relevant to the issue at hand.

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Originally Posted by Gregor (Post 1370496)

Last weekend I looked up from punching in a truss to see a ball flying at my face. I punched the ball back into the field, as I value my face more than someone's match win. Referee's positions are outlined in the manual. It's no different than hitting the allaince wall and having the ball bounce back into play.

It's not a matter of protecting your face as a ref or your equipment as a cameraman, it's a matter of "should a replay have been granted?".

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Originally Posted by Gregor (Post 1370496)

Cameramen locations are not mentioned in the manual, so I could why that could be cause for a replay, if their actions were deamed to affect the outcome of the match.

Referee and volunteer positions are not mentioned in the game manual. Is it grounds for a replay if a volunteer running the media streaming PC punches a ball away to protect their PC? This happened several times in Vegas.

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Originally Posted by mateoland (Post 1370603)

I think the larger problem here is the lack of definition of interference of "outside of game field"

This is the root cause. Again, there needs to be more consistency in the decisions of what merits a replay based on outside interference and the significance of it's impact on the outcome of the match, especially within the same regional. The bottom line is that it's very clear that in this case the cameraman's actions did not significantly affect the outcome of the match, and thus it makes no sense to have granted a replay.