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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
tl;dr.
No. This is a bad idea. Ignoring the cost and logistical challenges (which are not trivial), the time consumed is far too high.
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Side note: If you have never volunteered as a referee, you got nothing to say.
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This is simply false. Go back and actually
read my post. If you want I will gladly post a BOM breakdown of St. Louis FIRST's setup to refute the cost claim.
As far as the claim that 'it will eat up too much time' - in my opinion, above all else, the team experience needs to be the emphasis of the event. I think this is something that is forgotten by some FRC volunteers who have been doing this for decades. It's not about 'keeping the event on schedule' to the exact minute - honestly who cares if we run 15 minutes late? These students have spent countless hours, teams are spending thousands of dollars. I think the least we can do is consider this to improve event quality.
Providing the head referee another tool to make the team experience better and improve the quality of calls at the cost of 15 additional minutes (if EVERY alliance challenged a call in this theoretical scenario) is a no brainer to me.
The argument that 'stuff happens / teams need to suck it up and move on' is weak. It's another excuse to not improve the consistency of calls at events. The solution I'm suggesting gives the head referee another tool to make the correct call - which I think they are always trying to do. The head referee job is really hard. Why wouldn't we want to help them out and give them an option?
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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
I haven't read this entire thread so I apologize if it was already brought up, but which offseason event will be piloting a replay system? The best way to convince FIRST to make this change would be to do it and show them it works and is practical.
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I volunteer the
Gateway Robotics Challenge on October 1st.