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Originally Posted by sammas121
...Right when our round was about to start our laptop had a blue screen of death, as we were walking out onto the field. We quickly rebooted the laptop (thats how we had fixed it earlier). When the laptop was rebooting they started announcing the teams and asked us if we were ready to compete so we yelled no! and made an "x" with our arms. The Technical Advisor then came and checked to see if we were almost ready and when he turned around one of the other refs on the sidelines told us we had to step behind the playing line so the match could start. Because the laptop couldnt finish rebooting we lost (because we were defense).
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It sounds to me like there was a major breakdown in communication between you, the FTA, the head ref, the scoring table, and the emcee. The FTA should have signaled to the scoring table not to start the match. The head ref should have seen the FTA at your driver station, and known not to start. You should have been pounding on the window to get the head ref and emcee's attention to not start. The head ref and FTA should have had a better channel to communicate with each other. And finally, the emcee should have been paying attention to the FTA, head ref, and scoring table to know when it's ok to start.
So there are quite a few problems here, but know that there were actions you could have taken to prevent the problems.
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During the next match of the semis another robot on our alliance got hit hard enough to crack the lexan...when we went to the referee and showed him the lexan was cracked he looked at us and said...that because he had no recollection of the hit he couldnt call it a technical.
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You didn't state whether the opponent was inside your frame perimeter causing the damage, or if it was just a really hard bumper-to-bumper hit. But no matter, if a referee didn't see it happen, they can't call it. Bringing a damaged part of your robot to the question box won't help you get a call. Like I said, if we didn't see it, we can't call it, and we have no way of knowing if that part you brought happened in the last match, or one that you keep on your cart for such situations. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but the referee not calling it after the match was the correct thing to do.