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Originally Posted by George A.
I know what you mean about being completely baffled as to what a penalty was called on.
While I know this isn't the case everywhere but I know at least at the regionals I announce at, when the head ref gives the scorer the penalties, I makes sure I get the team numbers and the penalties, and announce those when the score is put up.
Like I said, I know this doesn't happen everywhere, but I think it helps the teams at the event.
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I think its really important to know where the calls are coming from, its really good of you to do your best to let the teams know this. I hope the game annoucers at Waterloo and GTR will be doing the same.
I can see how upseting it would be thinking you won a match and then ending up loosing due to penalties and from a teams point of view, the reffing would upset me because of that. However, I'm sure the refs do their best to make the calls and theres a lot of action going on on the field.
It takes several referies to make the penalties so I can see how easy it would be for one person, who is most likely focusing on their robot to miss the call. This leads to those people feeling like their getting penalties for nothing.
Again, having the penalties annouced makes everyone lives so much easier. Teams know where the penalties are coming from and can use that to improve themselves, or make clear, supported, constructive critism.
The only comment Im going to make it how I completely agree this point made by sumadin.
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Originally Posted by sumadin
Perhaps (for next year and the years to follow) the solution is a digital system of some sorts, that gives the refs the list of teams for each match, and the few most common penalties, and allows the ref to use that to track penalties.
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