Just for the record, the only hand-waving going on was the "cut" signal... and man did Dez go for that button like a man on a mission!
What happened was... one of the robots knocked the ball off in autonomous, but the balls did not drop (i think their paddle looked like a ball to the sensor)... One of the refs went to drop the balls manually, but didn't until the 40 second mark... So... I declared it a field failure... and you know the rest of the story.
Dez -- next time I'm hitting the button myself!