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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
What really, really, really grinds my gears is the total hypocrisy of the situation. We have video of missed assists in many of our matches. Non-calls and phantom calls that make absolutely no sense when watching the replay. Bizarre field faults involving hot goals, pedestals, and even transitioning the whole field into teleop 1.5 seconds after the start of autonomous (!). In these situations, we could do nothing but pound sand or get a replay (in the case of the latter issue). Why the double standard when a high school student makes an honest mistake?
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So I ask the larger question: Why has FIRST relied on a what is clearly a faulty technology to light the pedestal (among other technology problems) when a simple button on the refs stand would do (if even that), but hasn't implemented a very simple spreadsheet system to track when playoff teams use their timeout instead of requiring them to carry around a small sheet of paper than can be easily lost and easily confused with the backup ticket? Clearly the priorities for game and system design are misplaced at the moment.
If someone is going to tell me this is the "real world" I've got news for them--they don't live in the real world. I have almost 30 years of experience working in the regulatory and policy world. I often see empathetic rulings to accommodate mistakes that can have much more serious consequences for all of the parties concerned. FIRST needs to change its policies to reflect the "real world."