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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

After taking some time after watching the regional yesterday, and watching quite a few matches from SVR that I had saved, I must say the following:

Even though the referees blatantly screwed up a call in finals match 3, they had also blatantly missed other calls all day. It was consistently horrible...

Through all that, the referees did the right thing in playing a 4th match. It would be unfair to not only be horrible but to be inconsistent with what they had done all day and all regional. They did the right thing in staying consistent with their calls and as per how the refs were ruling at 2008 SVR, the red alliance of 254 100 and 115 DESERVINGLY won the regional.

Congratulations to them, and lets try to not take ANYTHIGN away from their win.

While the blue alliance had one of the worst calls in FIRST put on them, the referees had missed several other calls, particularly in match 2 of the finals that cost the red alliance that win in that match.

Both alliances should stand proud. Maybe FIRST might give the blue alliance a championship bid, maybe not. Regardless of what happened both alliances should be proud, but lets try not to take away anything from 254 100 and 115s win in talking about the controversy.
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