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Originally Posted by Shankar M
Penalty Announcements
I would love to see penalty calls (and their rationale) explained by the head referee. As the field is reset there is often an opportunity to explain why a call has been made in a given match - there may only be time to explain why technical fouls are called, but something is better than nothing at all.
In my experience, as a score is read off by the announcer readying themselves to introduce the forthcoming match, on rare occasions references may be made to fouls assigned but almost never to why they were called. Perhaps this is to be expected: the announcer's role is keep the atmosphere of the event exciting, not to elucidate the minutiae of the rules.
Allowing the head referee a moment to announce any penalties and why they were enforced as they were would bring transparency to a generally murky realm. It would make clear to all teams at the event how the referee interprets the rules and what actions must be taken to avoid being penalised in the future while adding an element of accountability to the referee's actions.
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I am a Game Announcer at GSR, WPI, Boston, and Hartford this year.
I always try to announce and explain fouls, especially technicals fouls, who they were called on for affecting which Robot, and why.
This is very important to reduce question box activity, but also to explain to the audience and provide data for scouts.
This is discussed in our weekly conference calls with Blair.
We hope to improve on this in the upcoming weeks.