Thread: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Re: Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'
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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
With the unprecedented amount of scoring software woes from last year I think it would be fair if FIRST made as much software as possible open source. A process should be created to allow teams to contribute bug reports. I would feel better about problems with the software if I had been given the opportunity to prevent them.
Actually, there was a precedent for 2006's scoring issues: 2005. (Which only hammers home your point.)

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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
I'd like this rule to be clarified further. Specifically, I want "scoring changes made in the overnight" to become a less ambiguous process.
Are you talking about the referees and scorers getting together after the end of the matches, and rechecking their scorecards against the records that were entered into the scoring computers? Or do you feel that some officials were deciding to change selected scores based on a discussion and reinterpretation of the calls made earlier? (I would consider the former to be standard practice; I'm not aware of the latter to any significant degree.)
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