[RobotKnight2014]

As a senior from team 3669 (on the same alliance as 1410 and 1339), I feel it is important to point out that following the debated elimination round, the Regional Director (if I recall correctly) came to our pits and offered an apology for the mistakes that were being made during the course of the weekend (not specifically the elimination round, but the generally overloading of the judges.) If I recall correctly (this was fresh after our loss so I apologize that my memory is a bit blurred), he said that the head ref that was originally lined up for the regional couldn't come and they had to come up with a substitute rather quickly. This was after I had a long discussion with the head ref about the outcome and reasoning of the re-matched game. From the judges running the game, the people in charge of the regional, and the observations of this thread and others that the judges were simply overwhelmed by the end of Saturday. For everyone involved it was a frustrating and draining experience, not just teams (such as myself) who feel that they lost because of poor reffing. We have not heard (or I have not seen) much input from the refs, but they are most likely second guessing hundreds of little choices they made throughout the weekend, just like we are reading these threads and wondering how things might have been done in a perfect world.
My personal motion is for a system where there are a set of refs inputting scores and fouls and another actually making the calls. Obviously this still does not work well if the refs are unaware of the rules, but it would certainly make it easier for them to keep their eyes on the game.
As for my personal thoughts of the outcome of the match, I do not think they would have been able to up enough points to win by the end of the round. I say this because if the ball would have been called dead as per 3.1.2 paragraph 5, our alliance would have been able to score more points and stay in the lead. Obviously this is a personal opinion, but it was frustrating to hear from my teammate and mentor involved with the rematch discussion that our win was void, and eventually wind up being the only original alliance member functional by the end of the last match.
I hope that no other teams have to experience the emotional roller-coaster we experienced, and that FIRST is able to find some way to prevent such frustrating events from occurring in the future. I am also glad that the FIRST community present in these discussions have kept their heads and are actively looking for answers.