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Originally Posted by Richard
QF2-4 was one of the best matches I've seen this year. Nice balance of offense and defense, very strategic endgame. Well played by both sides.
Edit: Huh? I guess while those of us in webcast land were watching the sponsors, there must have been quite a discussion to reconcile the FMS to the actual final rack configuration. Anyone got a more complete explanation? It appears the refs spent some extra effort to get this right.
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The red alliance "lost" two of their ringers in the dying seconds of the match. A ringer on the middle row was spoiled by 1503. 1592 was attempting to stop 1503 from placing that spoiler. While playing defence it appears as if they accidentally pushed a second red ringer over top of a red ringer they had already scored.
1334 was indeed ontop of 188 but apparently part of their robot was hanging off 188's platform since they only received 15 points. The initial scoring showed that red still had enough points to win. However, upon second/third/fourth look, the layout of the rack that the refs initially scored was deemed to be incorrect. The result was that blue won 28 to 27. I made a couple assumptions, but that seems to be roughly what happened.
Edit: The refs should be acknowledged for taking the time to make sure all the scoring was absolutely correct. No doubt they may have been tempted to just stick with the initial decision and keep everything going, but they took the time to ensure the correct result.