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Originally Posted by inkling16
I too was extremely disappointed that many of the important IRI rules were not used. When I talked with the referees, they said that the event organizers decided upon the rule changes without including the referees in the discussion. The standard FMS does not allow for 4 auto balls, and the refs would have to count ASSISTs differently than they were used to, so these two key changes were not used. It sounds like this lack of communication will not happen again next year.
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Not so much the referees as the FTAs and scorekeepers. There's no way in the 2014 FMS to allow for more than 3 autonomous balls at the start of the match. If there were 4 balls on the field at the start, then cycle 1 would start after the 3rd auton ball had been cleared, lighting the pedestal which would put 2 balls on the field for the rest of tele-op.
If they'd said, well we'll just make do, then that would have put a huge burden on field reset because they're the ones who would have to get the call right about keeping a team from pulling a ball off a lit pedestal based on there being more than 4 balls at the start. You can pretty much guarantee that across 42 qualifying matches and up to 9 elimination matches there would have been quite a few more "field fault" replays than the 2 we had.