I will just say this in defense of a few people:
Refs---it was a hard weekend to call and they did their best. It was frustrating sometimes I know, but in the end they are all just people and people make mistakes. There was some discussion of putting an accelerometer on robots and only when your acceleration (F=ma) and thus your force reached a certain level were you disabled. It was, however, decided that first the scoring system should be fixed so we don't have 30 minute delays and then we'll focus on accelerometers
Team 79 --- they did everything they could within the rules and within gracious professionalism to argue the calls during that match. when all was said and done and they knew the call wasn't going to be reversed one mentor said to another "You should go talk to the team and make sure they're ok. Let them know that it isn't the end of the world" or something to that effect in saying "It's a game...let's move on" congrats 79...you know what FIRST is all about
The finals alliance --- you guys put up one heck of a match. let it be known that the beast can be stopped. atlanta should be fun.
Everyone else --- i've never reffed. i've never wanted to ref. it's hard. i suggest (if you're going to complain) that you try it. especially if you're in the midwest...you have a regional within driving distance basically every week and they're always wanting more volunteers.
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