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Re: Call Inconsistencies Between Regionals

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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux View Post
I can't tell you how much I agree with this point. After attending BMR, I saw so many matches where balls were knocked off the overpass, but remained as counted on the overpass because they didn't hit the ground in time. This is lame. It confuses the crowd and even threw me for a loop at first. Little things like this make a big difference for the "wow factor" of an event. Many ends of matches that could've been exciting were quickly extinguished because of this flaw.
I didn't see that, what I saw were balls that were knocked off right at the buzzer and were rightfully counted because they were in contact with the robot knocking them off at the time of the buzzer.
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