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Foster, I am not new to FRC I have volunteered in almost every aspect of events, was a student on a team as a critical part of build and drive, ane I help mentior 4 teams. You must understand that i did not wish to rehash the data, and information. I have read a good deal of this thread maybe missing a few posts, so i know its all be said. I (and i would hope that many other field staff members, refs, event coordinates, and gdc/first staff) cant understand how one would expect to achieve this. The reasons i listed are just a few of those that i could list to explain how this would end badly and become more of a stuggle to implement then it would achieve in the long run.

The data that needs to be analized is how long it would take you to walk around the field, seek through a video, find a clip that you want to watch, verify what you expect, play it for two other people so you can be sure, disguss it, and then make the adjustments. Thats process, it would take atleast 2 minutes to complete. and if your talking about recounting scoring, it takes no less then 2.5 minutes to watch a full match, and for something like this years game? thats absolutely required in order to confirm crossings. So it would garentee adding atleast 3 minutes onto any match cycle you have, and thats without debate over any other penaties or other field related problems.

I will say i do agree that every point matters and that missed points suck, but you can't guarantee that a ref won't get distracted. And it can be a disapointment to students and teams. I personally when i was a student drive team memver was on the receiving end of a few bad calls, but never once did we think the wrong call was made after talking with the head ref.

The only feasable solution, is making refs more accountable for their actions. This could be as simple as adding a scorer or additional refs in future years. But providing video replay would more likely then not creat more problems by allowing refs to say "we will just review this later" and stop watching scores or fouls and forget about what they wanted to review at the end of the match.