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Re: Should teams be allowed to decline a replay?
The replay isn't only for the benefit of the affected teams, it's also (and more importantly) for the benefit of the competition. It eliminates a situation where the match wasn't conducted within the agreed-upon parameters. Teams should not be able to decline on behalf of the entire competition, because everyone has an interest in knowing that the rankings reflect the outcomes of correctly-determined matches.
Also, the outcome of the match ought to be defined1 to include the score, because the rankings consider the score in addition to the win/loss/tie result. (Note that in some FRC games, only the score really mattered.) As a result, the outcome is almost always affected by a field fault.
1 It's not defined in the rules.
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