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Originally Posted by Nyxyxylyth
The rules are too subjective - unless DC bots are really that much meaner than St. Joseph bots.
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Originally Posted by Woolly
The most exciting matches of Aerial Assist I've seen are ones where the ref crew stands back only calls blatant rules violations.
... hopefully the more passive style of refereeing will become more common.
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St. Joseph bots looked pretty mean to me, and I was watching from a very close vantage point while wearing stripes.* I saw a lot of very hard hits, and called very few technical fouls.
The results (see two posts above) speak for themselves -- good hard defense was not inhibited, and solidly built robots were rewarded by this style of officiating.
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*This was my first time refereeing. As a good volunteer should, I was following the direction set by our Head Ref.
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