[mizscience]

Reffing at the DC regional, there was a bot like this and us refs were reminded by our head ref (who had been tipped about this by someone else - not sure if it was the team, the inspectors, someone else) before any match with them to look out for them launching the ball and to count it as a possession. It greatly helped us in scoring matches with that bot.

Like others have stated, the refs are human and trying their best to be as quick and accurate as possible, but they can miss things in the chaos. Just point out the launching capability of your bot to the head ref on practice day and it should help the refs a great deal when scoring your matches!