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Unread 09-03-2016, 17:11
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Re: MAR Competitions

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Originally Posted by jds2001 View Post
I've been debating whether to respond to this, but I'm going to make one response and that's it.

I was a ref at Mt. Olive. This game is HARD, the sightlines are bad, and we're human.

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What really gets me down is when someone starts a thread like this, with apparently zero knowledge about how it's done, and then expects us to be perfect. We're all human, we make mistakes. However, since the rules do not allow us to look at video (and I would not be in favor of a change to this), we have to accept the mistakes, as Galarraga graciously did. Nobody's perfect.
Thanks for your point of view from your pretty unique point of view. Thanks for wearing the stripes at that event!'

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
I know, but step 1 is kinda getting a solution that should work. I don't have the knowledge required to do this on my own, all I can really do is spitball ideas.
Wasn't there a automated Frisbee counter they tried and ended up manually counting?

I'm going to guess that they would get an automated system working about the same time as the season ends. People hate FMS and that's something they've been working on ever season to make better. I can't imagine the auto-score nightmare.

I did like your brute force method of 6 people to watch, one for each robot. Techhelpbb offered to help on fixing it, he's part of MAR, I'm sure he can wrangle 5 friends.
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