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Re: Some thoughts on rules, refs, and ranking

After looking at the scoring I understand why you would feel this way. Team 3862 lost two qualifying matches last year due to volunteer error(which equated to about 1500 dollars worth of matches). I understand that every match cannot be replayed due to the time constraint in which that would put on a regional. I also understand that the refs are volunteers and they also are human. These guys get nothing from volunteering except for the fact that they know their extreme efforts are leading to great achievement and growth in the world's youth.
I propose a simple solution that I believe would leave everyone happy and situations like these from occurring. Give the alliance captain one red challenge flag that would allow them to use video evidence to dispute a match. This would provide an avenue that would allow a lot of certain close calls to be reviewed in eliminations in which many people walk away unhappy without slowing down the regional too much(teams usually get five minuets to change bumpers and batteries anyway).
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2011-FRC Team 3862, Team Captain
2012-FRC Team 3862, Strategy Mentor
2013-FRC Team 3885, Programming Mentor, Razorback Regional, Curie Inspector
2014- FRC Team 3885, Programming Mentor, Arkansas Regional, Newton inspector
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