[Ryan F.]

In my belief, a lot of the problems here just came from this game being too hard to referee, and the referee’s not completely knowing the rules. Too many things were happening at once for the ref's to keep track of, but still some of it could have been preventable. I will admit that I was pretty appalled by the penalty against 79 in the Midwest finals. They were simply pushing another robot away from where they it wanted to go, hardly overaggressive to me. It's like calling a questionable foul in the last seconds of a basketball game. In such a match, you should let the players play. Another issue that came to my attention though was the disabling of robots. During qualification our team was told we would be disabled because we crossed the plane of the field outside of the driver’s station. We were forced to explain the rule to the ref so we weren't disabled, a bad use of the 2 minutes. This just highlighted that issue for me.

Overall though it was a good regional, and despite my few complaints I appreciate those who were willing to be the referee's.