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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard
So here's a situation that occurred last year:
2015 Tech Valley Regional, 20-5254-3624 had an incredible match in a make-it-or-break-it 2nd quarterfinal match, placing 4 stacks total for the first time. When the scores came up, it had our alliance with something like 119 points, and as we analyzed the score, we realized they had only credited us for 3 stacks!
We sent some students to the question box, and the referees came together and discussed that they did remember us having 4 stacks up.
From my understanding of the situation (I was not in the question box nor in the referee's discussion), they then looked at video provided by two different teams that showed 4 stacks built 5-6 high and ended up reversing the call of that match, which ended up allowing us to move on to the semifinals.
Tech Valley is a generally relaxed event, with some great referees and teams who are always gracious, and I don't think anyone involved thought what the referees did was unfair. Am I wrong?
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I recognize that I'm a bit late to this thread, but I'd like to clarify the situation at TVR last year. As the team's drive team mentor for that year, I sent our student coach to the question box after we realized that there had been a scoring error and stood at the side of the field while the head ref talked to our students and then called a meeting with the other referees to discuss the match. While one of our alliance partners had a picture of the field at the end of the match with the correct number of stacks and we had a video, we neither asked the referees to look at them nor did the refs use them to make their decision. Luckily for us, the TVR refs did the right thing, both in terms of making a fair call and following the letter of the rules. Had that call gone the other way, I'm sure the aforementioned picture would have ended up on CD in a thread very similar to this one. I fully understand the sentiment behind the OP, as the desperation and lack of control our alliance felt trying to get the match rescored isn't something I'd wish on any other team. However, it seems to me that posts like these are best made a couple of days after the event once everyone has gotten some sleep and emotions aren't running as high on either side.