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Re: San Diego: Tech Foul in Finals

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Originally Posted by Hayes92107 View Post
Have someone impartial watch it after being explained the rules, and they would likely have come up with the same call 50% of the time.
Just saying, so will a coin flip.

I think the problem with this game isn't quite so much that it's difficult to ref (although it is), but that a refs mistakes can be so costly to the teams on the he field. Almost no teams can make up a 50 point deficit, especially against a good alliance. If a ref makes a mistake or what some would consider a bad call, it's essentially game over for any alliance which wasn't going to blow out the other alliance anyway.

Fouls exist to get people to play the game fairly. The current fouls seem to punish teams for stuff which may or may not be within their control. Imagine if tech fouls were 500 points. People wouldn't be any less likely to commit them. There's just no good reason for the fouls, especially tech fouls, to be this high.
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