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Originally posted by Sean_330
Guys this is turning into the typical post season event referee bashing thread. It seems the referees are bashed after pretty much every post season event.
FIRST is a game. It is not life. If the calls go against you, you will live. I promise all of you, nobody is gonna suddenly keel over and die due to a referee or even driver error. If you do there's gotta be someone there in the crowd who knows CPR. So why not cut the referees some slack and talk about the positive stuff that happened at Battlecry? All this thread is gonna do is cause fights about things that can't be changed.
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To continue on this, rule GM2 gives the referees god-like power in FIRST. If you don't like it, no matter what your team or robot is, then that's too bad. Weather it's fair or not, the referees are in charge. When you participate in any FIRST event, official or unofficial, you are agreeing to play by all the rules in the book. So what the ref says, goes.
::points to rule GM28 and the Battlecry SITREPs for more on the above and tipping. don't want to type it all out again::
I don't know anything about 121 being warned about the tip in auto-mode, but if it's true, the refs may be right about this. I don't think there's a rule that protects actions in autonomous mode, and DQ1 seems to make it even more favorable to the refs on this one. <edit>Check out DA7 as well.</edit>
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What I really wanna know is, ok 121 was DQed so why wasn't 176? What was different that made t ok? The refs got themselves into that problem and they should have stuck to what they were doing. If they had made a bad call to 121, they have to keep doing to make if far.
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The reason 176 wasn't DQed was because they barely moved. 157 was being the agressive one in that confrontation to get the 25 points. Yes, 176 they did have
some movement, but no where near enough to tip 157 on it's own. Rule GM27 says that pushing is expected, and it really wasn't much of a push anyway. Besides, I don't think 157 was angry with that situation anyway.
Other than all that though, I had a wonderful day. I was with friends the whole time, the food is always pretty good, and it was full of robot action (the elim. rounds took forever). I even got to meet Andy Baker. So it was a d@mn good time.