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Originally Posted by EricH
Because the vast majority of the calls that would be made are judgement calls. FIRST seems to have made the determination that only referees can provide that judgement in some years (2014 and 2016 come to mind). I can't say I'd trust someone who just "knows the game" with determining whether team X crossed a defense--there is a very specific definition of Crossing, and that very specific definition has led to numerous teams not quite meeting it and then complaining about it not being called. Just trust me on that.
If you don't have the training of a referee, why would you try to make a referee's call?
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The person running it simply has to go to the spot where the student says something was missed or penalty was called wrong and bring a ref over to look at it real quick. Could honestly be in between matches too and only if a student has a valid complaint and a general time in the match in which it happened. And hey if the videos are all saved too then now we have videos of every match at every regional and we solved that problem too!
Idk maybe that's the real reason I would like to see this happen.