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Originally Posted by EricH
This puts me in mind of what happened for a short time on Thursday at L.A. Seems that one of the refs used the original keeper rule and was making all the teams start with a keeper. Not only that, but said keeper had to be off the ground where it contacted a robot. I asked the refs about both (Hey, can you show me where it says this, cause I can't find it?), and they had already acted on the first question. The second question was a bit harder--the term was "in contact", so I said, "I'll let you define what 'in contact' is" and let it go at that.
If you think a rule is made up, ask the head ref (politely) to show you the rule. If he can't, but won't reverse the ruling, start moving up the chain of appeals.
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I had a huge discussion with one of the refs at SoCal over the same issue. He threatened to toss me out and DQ our team because I told them to put the ringer off to the side and not touching the robot. I quoted the update and everything. I finally asked to speak to the head Ref who calmly spoke and listened to me. He went back and reread the section and agreed with the rule. He even appologized for the other ref. Another great experience of the co-operation and dedication of the volunteers in SoCal.