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Originally Posted by Racer26
Grand scheme of things, its too late to change now, and I don't recall any matches that were decided by a G25 (typically, the ones they were called in were blowouts anyway), but the point is that all calls should be consistent from event to event, and it should be consistent with the interpretation provided from Q&A/The Manual, if one exists.
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I definitely agree that the calls should be more consistent form event-to-event, but that ultimately they can't be made identical...
I do think that just because no matches were decided by G25's doesn't mean it didn't affect the outcome of matches... Teams that had a G25 called on them for open-field 2v1 defense would probably avoid it in the future (20pt penalty is 1.75 cycles!). So, I'm guessing that more teams would've played effective 2v1 defense later in the event if they hadn't learned earlier in the event that it was likely to incur a G25.
At any rate, it was called as it was at Waterloo (they did at least seem pretty consistent about it calling it on 2v1 at Waterloo), the best that can be done is just using it as an opportunity to help improve continuity across events. Perhaps this is a case for particular training/clarification to the Head Refs from FIRST HQ?
As has already been said... if nothing else, teams should ask in the drivers' meetings about how the refs intend to call G25's.