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Re: Call Inconsistencies Between Regionals
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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley
This is not good thinking in my eyes.
At some point in time all these teams are coming together for this thing called the championship event. What would it be like if on curie they scored all the balls on the overpass as per <G14>, but on archimedes they scored them as per how the refs scored them for a good chunk of time at SVR ?
Well when you get to einstein and the refs are calling it as per <G14>, those archimedes teams are going to be playing a slightly different game.
It just doesn't make sense to have 41 different variations of the game being played in 41 different venues.
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Last year, I watched the brutal elimination round matches on Curie. The ref's allowed some very aggressive play on that field. In the first semi-final match on Einstein, the Curie alliance received a DQ for tipping 71, when the robots involved were attempting to hang ringers on the same spider. My initial reaction was that the Einstein ref had a very different criteria for illegal robot-robot interaction than what was called on Curie. After viewing a video of the DQ, from a field-side spectator, I don't question the call by Aidan, but the same ruling probably wouldn't have been made on Curie.
A problem with aggressive play is it tends to intensify to the point where fouls must be called, but once refs start down the path of "let 'm play", it gets harder for them to draw the line.
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