Some of my team went to watch Saturday at BAE and there were some details of the officiating that kind of irked me. I don't want to nitpick or anything, but these issues were very noticeable.
The first issue I had was when a robot was in possession of a keeper after the autonomous period ends. The head ref would come out of the field before the tele-operated period began and remove keepers from robot possession. This was never the case Saturday that it was a keeper that was going to score without any intervention but was not completely scored before autonomous ended. There was one case were a robot simply raised its arm to the full height with a keeper and the ref pulled the keeper out of its gripper, pulling the arm down with it. The rule, <G14> is clearly that a robot should drop a keeper after tele-operated period begins, which means that a robot can still have a keeper. The Q & A also has a clarification here: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=5307.
I watched some of the VCU webcast on Friday and saw the refs not interfere with robots to remove keepers, giving teams the responsibility.
The other issue I saw was not common to all the matches that I saw, but I did see what seemed to be clear bad behavior. This year's game rules are structured to allow for bumping defense. That's it. I saw some robots using their arms to interfere with other robots' arms. I saw one arm specifically compressing another robot's arm. I am all for letting it all play out but this kind of behavior is intentional entanglement at best.
Overall I saw most penalties caught fairly and I think the refs at BAE are generally good; however, these two issues really stuck out to me. The first one is a clear misinterpretation of the rules, and I'm worried that teams will have a different interpretation depending on the regional attended.