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Originally Posted by rick.oliver
While I understand your frustration, it makes me ask what are your Drive Team Coaches doing during the match?
It is impossible for anyone to see everything that is happening in a match. That is especially true of a student who needs to be focused on operating their robot or preparing to in bound a game piece.
The role of a Coach includes being aware of the situations during the match and that includes being assessed a foul. Fouls are signaled during the match and in some cases they are included in the real-time scoring....
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Drive coaches can only react to fouls if they've been properly signaled by the referee crew. The Ref crew on Newton was especially bad at this. They consistently used a "post match huddle" as a safety net. We had one match where our alliance was given 2 technical fouls for contact inside the frame perimeter and a tipping violation. Once I saw the other robot go down, I scanned the referees and not a single ref raised a flag. Watching the video of the match confirmed that no flags were raised. However after the match there were 2 technical fouls called. Nothing drive coaches can do in that situation. Referees need to understand both their actions and in-actions have a direct impact on the match.
Kevin is right, it's something that needs to be fixed in next years game design.