[ChrisH]

Having just been a ref this past weekend at the Southern California Vex event, I figure I have a fresh persective.

On at least two ocassions there were errors in the scoring, and that was just on my field. I have no idea about the other field. In one case I accidentally recorded the wrong team as winning autonomous. It was obvious the blue alliance had won it as they had the only robot that moved and I distinctly remembered that robot with its unique mechanism scoring in Auto. But somehow I recorded it as Red winning Auto. One of the team members asked about the score and I went and double checked. We corrected the error with no fuss. It didn't change who won but did affect the Ranking Points.

In another case one of the other refs forgot to record who got the Atlas ball, turning what everybody expected to be a very close match into a rout. When the posted the result there were at least two refs running for the scoring table to figure out what happened.

Refs are fallible and I have no problem with respectful questions from teams that have a problem with the score. I think some sort of official appeal system is in order, but it would have to be exercised very shortly after the score is announced. Refs see more matchs than anybody and after a while they sort of blend together...