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Guys-
The refs made the call.
Many claim this call was bad.
This may be the case...

Nothing will change now. No improvements to the FIRST system can be made. FIRST tries its hardest to provide a positive experience for all those involved. They have recently expanded their pool of head-refs and will continue to do so (as they get more and more regionals).

Take comfort from the fact that FIRST is doing everything it can to eliminate any such "bad calls". They have, and will occur, but they will be minimized.

Everyone can form their own opinion on whether this call was good or bad, but the only opinion that matters has already been stated. The ref decided it was intentional. The ref's judgement is FINAL.

This has been discussed quite thoroughly, and politely. I'm not sure if anything else can be added.

Lets recap:
-Call Made
-Call is FINAL
-Possibly Bad
-FIRST doing everything it can to keep it from happening again.

I hope this thread is closed, before this mostly polite discussion turns into something possibly worse.

Congrats to 121 on one hell of a robot.
You'll make it up in the off-season, and again next year!