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Originally Posted by AnonymousMarvin
I agree fouls do change strategy in the middle of a match, and its always a good idea to have a back up plan,but if the refs just made the call on the feild and then either they log that foul or have somebody do it for them and the call stays then that would have significantly changed some of the matches. Because of the inconsistancies in the way the fouls were called on the field, the way they were logged, and the way they were scored you could never really know for sure wether or not something was or wasn't a foul. This year fouls played an even more important roll than recent years in changing the outcome of a match. The problem rested in the number of points award for each foul, the numbera were way to high. For example in orderto make up one technical foul you needed a 3 assist cycle with a truss just to break even woth that penalty. The points awarded for fouls should never have been that high to begin with.
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That's the reason that the question box is there. If a foul is called on a team that really shouldn't have been a foul, the team can and should question it so the refs can gather and discuss it. But at least warn the team that there is a foul that may be called on them so they can adjust based on that.
As for the foul points, I believe it was said earlier that the high points are there to provide encouragement to not commit a foul.
If I recall correctly, there was never a foul called against my team this year except one in Hartford, but because I questioned it there was a rematch. But there were a lot of fouls called against alliance members that they never questioned, even at Worlds. A part of the fouls system relies on teams being willing to question it when something is called on them, but some students just seem to be intimidated by the refs.