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Re: This year we need instant replay

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Originally Posted by Collmandoman
Please read entire posts before you respond. I took the time to write all that out, so before you are so quick to say NONONO please read and give your then helpful input.
if you read my considerations for replay.. you will note that one camera will be mounted showing the whole field
Please watch soap matches when the one stationary cam is on the field- even with the reduction of quality to put it on their site - it's still decent footage
training involves being able to use the rewind/foward and pause buttons on a camera...
Might wanna take a chill pill, that attitude is uncalled for.

About the camera, I've seen images from a stationary camera, high quality, low quality, close, far, up, down, left and right....

I've also seen penalties handed out for teams sort of in, sort of not in the loading zones. Tell me, if a ref right there, watching, can't tell, how is a camera going to? A team speared our robot and ripped our RC power cables out right in front of the driver station, we couldn't see it, 2 feet in front of us, while we were all watching our robot carefully. One stationary camera will not do it and its just another expense on an already tight bank account.

I'm sticking with my vote against instant replay unless somebody can prove that the camera has better eyes than a team of refs, and that it's a viable option for FIRST.
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