[Ethulin]

So, after just attending the PAC NW regional I would like to talk about what rules people are not seeing getting called, as well as rules you are seeing getting called and that you are impressed with.

This should not become a "flame the referees" thread. It should also not become a "we lost match #XX because of this crap call". It should be "I noticed that rule XX is routinely not being enforced in these situations".

If this thread turns out right it will not only be a useful thread to upcoming teams with regionals but maybe just maybe to the FIRST organization themselves.

Please also put what regional you noticed these things at.

So now I can step off the soap box and talk about the things I noticed.

The good:
PACNW: offsides is being called well

The bad:
PACNW: The remaining balls after the robots are loaded are not in corrals at beginning of match, they are in plastic bins behind player stations
PACNW: In the above situation the remaining balls are not evenly distributed, for example the HPs could have 8 in one bin and 2 in the other
PACNW: Some human players would step out of the alliance zone to throw and were not assessed any penalty
PACNW: 3in intrusion was given a 5pt penalty not a DQ as called for in G21

Observed (not sure good or bad):
Low amount of pining calls
Almost all bot interaction (ramming) was deemed acceptable