My personall feeling is that a ref is the the equivelant to a umpire in Baseball. In baseball you cannot question a judgement call. But you can question the rules and i guess under certian circumstances you can double check the scoring itself (ie. is the box in the scoring zone or not). But in my opinion the ref has the same responsibility as an umpire. I feel FIRST has done an excellent job with their referees.

Back to the question, however, I feel that the robot should be checked more stringently by more of a random checking process. As for violations on the field i think by getting DQ'd you really wouldn't be helping your alliance partner so why would that help in getting picked. The rules should def. be enforced as they already are.

Just my opinion

-Pat