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Originally Posted by George A.
I know that I always announce the team and rule infraction for each match I call, as have most announcers for the regionals I attend.
The only caveat to this is that in the elims we are instructed to only give the alliance color in hopes to stem "blaming" one team for getting the alliances knocked out
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Hmmm.. interesting. At the Chesapeake Regional, the announcer did communicate which teams were responsible for red and yellow cards in the elimination rounds - including two red cards that caused a semifinal rematch and another red card that cost the red alliance a final match that would have sent that alliance on to St. Louis. The match was replayed and the blue alliance won.
In the past, we have had a disconnect between our scout and drive teams so at this Regional we made it our goal to close that gap so that our drive team could better decisions. Our team had a scouting system that included 1 scout for the red alliance, 1 scout for the blue alliance, 1 scout to record minibot scores & penalties (that was me), and 2 people for data entry. We uploaded all our data to a google site (
https://sites.google.com/site/2011chesapeake/) so that our drive team could make informed decisions and also provide early assistance to robots we were allied with in future matches that seemed to be in need of repairs. To be fair, we made the website public so that other teams could view our data too.
Because I was recording penalties, I could see how a drive team could miss some really key penalty calls. The referees conferred on the penalties for all matches so there was a lag between the penalty announcements and the end of matches. However, I know there must have been some kind of earlier communication between the refs and our drive team because the one time our team got carded - our drive team was able to ask the refs for clarification on the penalty.