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Originally Posted by DjScribbles
At the Southfield District Event (MI) there were a few cases where the delay between an alliance clearing the field of balls and the pedestal being lit to allow the inbounder to grab the next ball.
I'm wondering if this was observed at other events, and how it was handled.
In one of our matches we had a 40 sec delay, and, because the delay wasn't explicitly observed during the match, it took a number of visits with the referees before we were granted a replay of the match.
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We had a similarly long delay and, though fault was acknowledged, we were flatly denied a replay in a match with a
four point losing margin--despite citing rules and not a little pleading from students. A similar long field crew delay happened in a match we lost by 1 point, where again the fault was acknowledged without a replay. The head ref, thankfully, began pausing matches to sort out the light, but even then some pauses came at least 10 seconds after the ball scored. (Time was paused, not backed up--we restarted another match with 2 seconds left on the clock.)
We were far from an edge case. There were a lot of very frayed nerves across many teams, and I'm frankly proud of everyone for their handling of it. Still, I hope FIRST understand objectively how big an affect this has. It literally changed alliance selection (the matches involved captains and those who would have been in a captain seed), and directly affects MAR rankings, at first glance by ~10% for some teams. Refs shouldn't be burdened with these kinds of calls.