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Re: Improving Officiating at FIRST Events

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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock View Post

Maybe to remedy this, we can take one of the good aspects of professional sports, and have the microphone handed over to the actual (head?) referee (like in NFL games) to explain why the penalty was incurred, and to exactly who?

For example, the microphone gets handed to the referee and he says "10 pt penalty, team xxx, for rule xxx" and then the actual referee can explain it since they made the actual decision.

Then if a team wanted to contest that ruling, standard operator only interactions with referees (not team coaches) would then be followed.

Just a thought to remedy at least one of Madison's issues she brings up.
I really like this idea, go straight to the source for the information. It would actually be easier than people think. Right next to the scorer is a microphone, theoretically they could tell the scorer and the crowd the penalties at the same time, and then the score is revealed.

I've seen Sonny (the head ref in Philly) do this the past couple of years, and IMO it works out really well.
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