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Re: Team 548 Einstein Statement

There are simply too many ways for a robot to fail (as we saw in the Einstein report) for the refs for FTA's to make a snap call to replay a match unless there is conclusive evidence that the cause was out of the teams control. When there is such evidence, matches are replayed. I've seen it happen when the field has had issues, which does occasionally happen. The issue is identifying the root cause of the failure.

So they're really already doing what you suggest in the last paragraph... it's just rare to be able to make the decision as to root cause.
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