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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
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Before anyone signs me up on vims know that I already inspect for FTC and plan on inspecting for FRC. I just became a Deans List finalist and I am going to volunteer at worlds. This is not a matter of me complaining just simply supporting the fact that stuff needs to change.
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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
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Side note: If you have never volunteered as a referee, you got nothing to say.
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I want to address this. Inspecting is nothing like reffing. I have done both of these jobs (and many more) in the past two years. Reffing puts you in arguably one of the toughest decision making positions many times more than any other position, often without having the ability for someone else (let alone your volenteer lead (LRI, Head Ref, etc.)) to see it happen. An inspector can call another inspector or the CSA over to look at a problem during inspection, refs rarely have the ability to have someone else see what a robot did in the first six seconds of tele-op. Don't get me started on how vastly different the training/tests are for the positions.
I'm not going to totally disregard anyone's claim that calls have been missed or that ref quality could be improved, but it will come with much less weight than the experience of people that have the experience of being in the role for many years.