okay, lemme get my impression straight:
each team is allowed three humans in the alliance station:
-one driver
-one human player
-one mentor
the mentor is not allowed to touch the balls or controlling devices, correct? if we have a student take the place of the mentor, i was under the impression that they were allowed to handle the balls. did your alliance have two adult mentors?
if this is the case, the refs were correct in their ruling, according to my understanding. also, you said that the controller had limited participation in the ball shooting, how did that work? driving takes a bit of concentration, wouldn't that be hard?
i agree that your alliance deserved an explaination of the ruling, it might even help other teams in other regionals to know why this is. it was wrong of them not to justify their ruling, but i vowed to myself not to side in cases such as these...
