Interesting Question to say the least. I can think of a match or two where there were replays but declines would have been used. But back to the initial question.
I know in FTC, the replay decision is on the Head Referree but often that call is made off of the FTA/Tech support staff's findings. (Been on that hot plate enough times as FTC FTA)
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<G14> Matches are replayed at the discretion of the Head Referee only under the following circumstances:
a. Failure of a Game Element that was likely to have impacted which Alliance won the Match.
b. * c. omitted as they deal with loss of robot control.
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I could see a rule added for declining replay of matches but there are a fair few questions/hypotheticals that would have to be worked out for it to ever end up in the manual.
Who would decline? Both alliances or the losing alliance? Would it be a decline by team? If so, what happens if it is a three for and three against split? What justification would you have to give for declining? So many more that it borders on the nutty.
If it were done in the eliminations, I could see it being a potential decline on the part of the losing alliance and treated as a decline card similar to the time out.