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Originally Posted by headlight
I would much rather have video replay as a backup to the automated systems. Things like Newton's qualification match 86 where the automated system miscounted the autonomous boulders could easily be resolved with a video review system.
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Yes... very much. Even the generally excellent automated goal scoring this year was fallible (NE CMP SF2-2 original, CMP Newton Q71, CMP Newton Q86)... as far as we noticed. Each instance ended up having a different result though! NE CMP SF2-2 was replayed because of it (due to close score), CMP Newton Q71 had the score simply corrected, and CMP Newton Q86 had the score "corrected," but not to the right number.
In Newton Q86, 217 and 1519 together scored 2 auto HGs and then scored 9 teleop HGs.
Video replay confirms this. Unfortunately, the automated scoring system only counted 1 auto HG and 9 teleop HGs. We lost by 10 points.
We attempted to get the score corrected, but even though the refs easily remembered the 2 auto HGs, there was no way anyone remembered exactly how many teleop HGs were scored. So the refs did end up "correcting" the auto score by changing a teleop HG to an auto HG (in Q71 one of our auto HGs was counted as a teleop HG due to it being shot right at the buzzer and then taking a while to filter down to the counter, and was corrected similarly)... this made our auto total correct - which is good for rankings - but still left the score 5 points lower than the truth, which meant that we still lost.
Anyway, we certainly appreciated the effort of Abby Perry, the Newton Head Ref, to correct the scores in Q71 and Q86. The Ref's memory was adequate to recall the correct scoring in Q71, but not in Q86 (no fault of the refs!!). A tool in their belt, in the form of instant replay, could help when there's uncertainty or gaps in the refs' memory...