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Originally Posted by apache8080
FRC is the only sport were the ref has to look for fouls and keep track of the score at the same time
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Baseball umpires call runs at home plate.
Football refs call touchdowns, field goals, and safeties.
All sports, the Ref calls when a score has happened or not.
In FRC, the Ref's call some scores (crossings), but they don't keep track of the score (FMS does that).
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I also think that referees should not handle scoring and should only focus on calling fouls.
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IMHO, there are some things that can be handled by Field Stewards, like they did with Recycle Rush. I think there should have been Field Stewards doing boulder counting in the Castle, and letting Ref's know when they are at 6.
They had Ref's watching crossings, so having a Field Steward do it won't improve anything, other than freeing up a Ref to watch for fouls.
IMHO, FRC should have added one more ref, and done 1-on-1 ref'ing with one ref watching one robot for the entire match. Maybe do it during Practice Matches to see how it goes. The Ref won't miss a crossing (although still has a problem with sight lines for the Sally Port). Ref won't miss the start of a Pin (although the actual start can be subjective, but it should happen more promptly). The Ref for the robot that causes a foul enters it into the panel.