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Originally Posted by petek
Speaking as a RR ref, thank you Wayne! I think you may have pointed out one area which FIRST can address: too many rules. At RR, the focus was on throwing penalties only where people's and robots' safety was at stake. If this was FIRST's prime directive to the refs, I think most of the calls for instant replay would go away.
Refereeing Triple Play was hard work. So much happens so fast all over the field, it is easy for the refs to miss things. I know there were a couple of times that tetras broke or were descored in front of me that I didn't see until it was too late to know for sure how it happened, because I was watching to see if the human players were touching the robots, or there was heavy robot contact distracting me. My hat's off to everyone who volunteered to ref this year!
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I hope I was able to convey that when I gave feedback on 2005 and it is better for 2006, from a ref perspective. We don't LIKE to make these calls, but we call 'em as we see them. With 10 people watching things, most things get seen.
For all the reason posted above, I concur in the NO vote.
Wetzel