[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Andy Grady

Listen guys, its pretty simple...there are about 20 people watching the game at one time per match...seven of them are referees. Its not hard to figure out when the pedestal is or isn't lighting up, because the human players are so darned quick to get out there and reload the robot. I can't tell you the number of times I heard a fellow volunteer yell out "PEDESTAL" before a peep even came out of a drive crew. There are tons of factors as to why a pedestal wouldn't light up, and none of them really warrant yelling at anything but the pedestal itself. The dead ball thing you may have a point with (at first), but by the end, the refs had that down too.

I know there was one match at one of our regionals where I said "XXX Pedestal" (I don't remember which color it was) loudly, and had the ref standing about 10 feet from me hit a button on the tablet, glance over his shoulder, and say "thanks!" as the pedestal lit up I don't think the alliance had started yelling yet.