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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
Would be curious to hear more on the challenge - who asked for it, what was the call & did the team that asked for it feel better about being able to do it? We're going to run the same pilot at GRC so just curious about the details  Sounds like it went well with hopefully a minor impact to the event schedule. |
It wasn't fully as official as I would like and the process was odd, so I'm not going to post the full details. Mostly cause our hardware wasn't perfect. Basically a team thought they breached and weren't given the defense crossings to reflect that. We were already behind schedule so we didn't really publicize any part of it to keep the schedule moving. The breach wouldn't have changed the out come of the match anyway had the referees missed a cross so we actually shouldn't have even done the replay. (the team had lost by more than 25). I just pulled up the match videos and let the referees count the crossing as we watched. There was some confusion in letting teams know the outcome of the review as well. In the end there was one crossing missed but it wouldn't have given them the breach or the win.
I still think video replay is a needed item, had the score been different and the referees made a mistake in missing multiple crosses that cost a team an advancement to the next round, I would have felt awful if that was the way any teams left our event (or any event). The goal should always be to get the call right and in this case the refs got it mostly right on the field.
The process wasn't perfect but it helped ensure the refs made the right call and that the game was played fairly.