[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I was looking for this happy ending to this story and was disappointed this ruling was not made. It's not like this is the first time important matches have been botched due to errors on the field.

Einstein 2012 is completely different. That was due to problems WITH the field, interference from outside the field, and programming and wiring problems with some robots. Which added up to subpar performance from many robots. the implication being that if it weren't for the problems, the matches would have played differently and there might be a different winner.

In this case, the scoring error occurred after the match was played. The Red Alliance clearly won the match, but a scoring error gave the win to the other team. It's entirely clear who the correct winner of the tournament was. And hey, look! After the error was corrected, the Red Alliance was the winner.

For the record, I'm also against the "Everybody wins" solution. I understand the argument that the Blue Alliance was hurt and disappointed to discover that they didn't win after all, I just don't think it's valid. It's only slightly different from the more common scenario where they Blue Alliance thinks they've scored enough points to pull off the win, only to lose by 2 points because something. The only difference is a few more minutes of the Blue Alliance thinking it's won. Are you people really arguing that we should give people passes to Champs because they're disappointed and totally thought they should have won the competition?