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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

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Originally Posted by RobJ View Post
FIRST has enough money if they decided to pay the referees. If you look at the annual reports from previous years you can see that their "cash" account has increased by about a million dollars each year.
Personally, I don't believe paying the refs is the answer. This doesn't guarantee good calls. What would help, however, is making sure the refs are people who have been a part of FIRST in the past, or have strong feelings for what the teams do and how much we put into this, so that they will make certain that the calls they make are the right ones, and will leave nobody (or, as few as possible) scratching their heads over why the rules weren't followed. Now, I don't know what kind of people the refs are (old team members, mentors, etc.), but to me, this seems like the best bet to avoid another SVR like this one.
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