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Originally Posted by BigJ
I love this game on the game side but the fouls and inconsistent reffing are driving me crazy. The "new Thursday rules" were reffed seemingly completely opposite on Friday and Saturday at the Wisconsin regional from my estimation, giving teams an incorrect idea of how they would be called in eliminations.
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Exactly. The game itself is really good and introduces a very new style of gameplay to FRC, but at the same time the game is extremely subjective and there are grey areas in many of the most basic rules. Some of the poor reffing is caused by how different referees interpret the rules. At midwest, we found that inbounding from the human player on one side of the field almost always resulted in a foul from the referee on that side, whereas inbounding from the other side was fine.
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Originally Posted by BJT
I dont remember the match or teams involved, but at wisconsin, the outcome of an elimination match was changed by 100 points in fouls. In my opinion for there to be 100 points in fouls, there should be no doubt in anyones mind what happened.
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This certainly isn't the only instance of this occurring, either. At crossroads, my team had a qualifier against many of the best robots at the event and we ended up winning because of 150 foul points. Although it is a little amusing to be on the receiving end of this issue, it certainly did screw over a couple of great robots.
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Originally Posted by mrnoble
unless you are top three, qualification wins and losses really don't matter. Who cares if you have a partner who fouls a lot? Do you think scouts will actually blame your team?
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Coming from a second year lead scouter, a lot of teams either don't scout, or do really bad scouting. This should be especially evident with this year's game where certain things are very confusing to track (we actually had to write up definitions for "low-goal attempt" and "floor pass").