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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
make the teams touch the load zone and give the refs some hardhats.
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Hardhats? I do agree with that! However, it won't help. We referees couldn't get much closer to the Human Player loading zones without getting in the way of the Human Players themselves! (Tripping HPs is a bad idea too.) There's no choice but to be 5 or 10 feet away. Oh well, I guess that's why FIRST wrote "Clearly Visible."
Yes, more eyes and hand signals may work.
[I'm not defending any ideas, only stating my experiences as a referee at a trial event (remember, it was a dry-run for referees too)]