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Originally Posted by CJO
Therefore, yes, a judgement call had to be made, but the call should have been to replay the match, not to call the outcome of a regional.
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This is not a precident I would like to set. The only time there should be a replay at an FRC event, is in the case of a technical failure on FIRSTs side of things. If we decide to have a rematch every time the refs need to make a major judgement call, regionals would run from Thursday to Tuesday. There just isn't time for this, and it encourages people to challenge the rulings of the referees. It's the same reason that umpires in baseball will not tolerate people arguing balls and strikes. In the words of Jesse Spano from the classic sitcom Saved by The Bell, "There's no time, there's never any time..." (Sorry, I couldn't resist...)
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Originally Posted by CJO
I have a lot of problems with team 254 (among other things, during the playoff rounds I saw four NASA engineers working on their robot)
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Funny, seeing four NASA engineers working furiously to help fix a robot is something that I'd find inspiring. Where else can you see "rocket scientists" in action in a pressure packed situation, in person? Doesn't Hollywood make movies about these types of things, albeit on a grander scale? I remember seeing these scenes at my first nationals in 1998, when I was in High School, and thinking "Wow, that's really cool. Engineering looks fun..."