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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Having attended many many events with Lisa as a head ref, she is one of the better refs I have witnessed. She's generally fair and consistent with her rulings. I find it a little distressing to see so much discussion of referee decisions, in generally what seems to be a negative light, in this thread. Even so far as one team declaring they won't be returning because of it.
Please, try and be objective. One side or the other is always going to be upset about a referee's decision. Don't make rash decisions and posts based out of emotion.
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Agreed. I had the pleasure of meeting Lisa over the weekend and she was incredibly fair.
There were some issues with the sensors on the minibot towers, but referees and scorekeepers are not allowed to give points for those simply because they saw a minibot go up. I, along with others, were talking to Lisa about this after the competition and she, too, agreed that it was incredibly unfortunate and somewhat frustrating that field issues were keeping teams from being awarded the points. Again, however, that falls outside of the referees' jurisdiction/purview and they really can't do anything about. I really hope people will take notice of that before pointing a finger at those staffing the competition. If it really is an issue, perhaps talking to the FTA about it would be more effective, since they are in charge of the functioning of the actual field, though I'm not sure how much they'd be able to fix it, either. It seems that some fields certainly work better than others this year, though.