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Re: Referees and Human Players
I've refereed 4 events this year, so I can say what has worked for me at the events I've worked at.
Normally, during qualifications we would have one referee on each side hang back and stand near the driver's station. This would be on the side that the Inbounder slot is on. They would split time between the field and the humans, usually focusing more on the humans. The one across from them would be completely focused on robots. Although this isn't perfect, it worked fairly well.
During eliminations, we used a slightly different system. At events where we wer lucky enough to have two extra referees (which we had at 2 of my events) we would station one of each behind the drivers stations and they would signal fouls, allowing the other refs to focus on the field. However if there weren't the extras we used the staggered refs like in qualifiers.
I know this isn't perfect, but this is just one system that seems to help keep a close eye on the human players.
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P.J. Lewalski
Team 910-The Foley Freeze -- Student 2007-2010, Mentor 2012-2016
FRC Referee 2011-Present
Referee at 29 Regular Season Events, 3 World Championships, 24 Off Season Events, and Counting

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