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It was also frustrating for our mentors refereeing since it's so hard to keep score and ref simultaneously. It was difficult for me at times to keep calm when there were one or two assists not being counted during a cycle, or multiple cycles, but you can't blame the refs or get angry at them. They just have way too much on their plate.

The most frustrating part of all is when you consider that all the teams devote hours and hours of their time to make their robot work, and spend so much of their funds to enter a competition; then they waste $300 to $500 in entry cost on a match where the loss was not the fault of any of the teams, but rather the field.

We also had delays with declaring dead balls at IE. On one our matches, the ball was stuck in our robot towards the beginning of the match, and the ball was not declared dead until up to around 30-40 seconds after we signaled that it was no good for play, and finally the match had to be restarted because of this.

We also had another match that started perfectly; the autonomous shots went in, and we were far ahead, until I started wondering why our human players weren't inbounding after the first cycle. What was the problem? The pedestal would not light at all, and there was a rematch, and then the pedestal was delayed, and then we had to do another rematch the next day.