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Originally Posted by Doug G
Now on the flip side - it seems that the games these past few years have been increasing the roles of referees in deciding matches. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't remember all this drama back in 01-04? It seems to have all started with that stupid 30 pt penalty triangle rule from '05. '06 had the offense/defense craziness (not too bad in retrospect), '07 with ramp nonsense (we were let down by non-calls refs didn't make at Bayou), and now in '08, you accidently back up over a line and -10 ?
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04 was the first year for 10+ point value penalties, before there were minor penalties (which could take points or disable/DQ), disables and DQs (which were more common). There were penalties for many different things, ball chute incursion seemed to be the most common, but I also saw goaltending & robot scoring a small ball (humans had to shoot the balls). The Battlebot-like games of 02 and 03 are probably a major reason for this.