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Originally Posted by gblake
Folks - I think I'm right if I say that one purpose of using video is replacing fallible judgements with measurable facts. Be careful not to introduce too much heat-of-the-moment judgement back into the process you purpose/test.
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The purpose of video review should be to allow referees to do their jobs better - that's it. It's not there to let teams endlessly draw out a tournament. It's not there to bring up incidents that didn't really happen. I don't want to introduce opinions, I want to introduce facts. Video doesn't lie and that's a great thing.
I think everyone can agree that our head ref's have a tough job. I'd like to try and help them out by giving them an option to review the previous match. I get that it's different and hasn't been done much before (cool to read about off-seasons that have done it.) Let's try it out in the off-season. Worst that happens is we find that it doesn't support the current tournament structure and we don't pursue it any further. Best that happens is we change the FRC event structure a bit in the future with defined guidelines set by the GDC & FIRST to improve event quality overall across the program. It's all upside right now. Let's give it a go.
I'll take Blake up on that beverage bet BTW
I have high hopes and confidence in the system we use here in St. Louis. I'd love to try and replicate it. There are plenty of people who can tell you something won't work, it's up to us to prove them that it could work - that it will work. It has to be bullet proof and simple... and I think what we have checks both of those boxes. Really excited for
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