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Re: Improving Officiating at FIRST Events
I had the privelege of meeting and talking with Aidan behind the scoring table at St. Louis this weekend. He recognizes that our real-time scoring procedures are not 100% accurate yet, and let me assure you that he is NOT willing to accept things as they are. However, being a world-class engineer, he is not willing to insert ill-considered fixes, either. He and the GDC will get to the root causes of scoring problems and they will be addressed, but action without data is just not the right way. Aidan is getting his data, and analyzing it. Please be patient and understand that real-time scoring systems are just as challenging as robot design.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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