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Originally Posted by Thelilpluck461
Mr. Hoffman,
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It takes around 7 seconds for a referee to finalize the score. Ideally it would take 9 seconds from when a ball is scored to when the pedestal light turns on. We all know that referees have much more to look at then just scoring. So a delay longer than 8 seconds is not out of the ordinary.
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Thank you for confirming that an unacceptable delay caused by an overworked referee and a suboptimal field control system is a common occurrence. Makes me feel all warm and squishy inside.
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If you would like to nitpick the end of the match I see multiple infractions. Looking at end of the match it appears that the pedestal does not ever light up. I say the pedestal never lights up because the lights above the driver’s station do not turn off. For some reason the human player comes around and inbounds the ball.
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Oh, I don't know. Maybe the human player wanted to actually play the game instead of waiting around for previously-mentioned overworked referee and suboptimal field control system to take pity on him.
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When the human player is inbounding the ball he steps out of the box there for a 10 point penalty. Assuming the human player took the ball off the pedestal when it was not lit that is a technical foul there for a 50 point penalty. The ball illegally taken off the pedestal is also in bounded which is a technical foul so another 50 point penalty. A grand total of 120 points in penalties. Even if there was a last second truss for 10 points the match would not have been close.
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Dang, the refs sure were blind to all these transgressions. It's worse than I thought!
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Even with the delay I do not see a need for a replay on qualification match 24. The delay was not long enough.
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I'd love to be the person who gets to define what level of suck the system has to reach before a team is credited with a pity re-do. SUCH POWAHHHHHHHHH.
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The fact of the matter is that the few complaints were from qualification instead of finals is fantastic.
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Oh there are probably at least 3 teams that would beg to differ with you but I won't mention who they are. One posted in this thread earlier.
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One more thing for everyone to think about is that F.I.R.S.T. cannot change too much for how regionals are scored and played. It would not be fair to teams that played the first few weeks.
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Hear that, everyone who's yet to play - I'll be saving a nice and toasty seat for you in FRC hell!
FIX THE PROBLEM.