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Originally Posted by gp2013
As head refs are understandably hard to come by FIRST would rather allow unfair play than "micromanage" their head refs.
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Hey Gary,
There's a lot that can be said about FRC reffing (it's well known that I've said a lot over the years), but despite that I don't think anyone can reasonably claim that FIRST prefers to allow unfair play to happen. There's definitely a concerted effort from GDC all the way down to the local referees to make things as fair as possible. Yes, there are still mistakes and the process can be improved, but I think it's a little disingenuous to suggest that FIRST is knowingly allowing unfair play.
I'm glad your team is already looking ahead to get past this and working on coming up with concrete suggestions on how to improve things for all participants in the future. I'm sure if you share some of these suggestions here, the community will gladly help and provide some of their own. Hopefully we can all come up with some ideas to help minimize the chances that a team walks away from an event feeling the way you did.