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Originally Posted by GeeForce
Was 1114, by chance, playing with two other robots at the time? Is it possible that those other robots crossed 1 line each?
[disclaimer: this is spoken as a driver] At Detroit and St. Louis, we felt that hurdler interference is one of the calls that wasn't really made as much as it should have been. Satisfying the act of HURDLING (ball higher than lane divider OR moving towards overpass with ball), we saw several times where teams would get wrecked and no call was made. We tried our best to discuss it with the head ref after our matches, but often to no avail. At WMR this weekend (and apparently Waterloo as well), we noticed that they were being MUCH more strict on this call. I feel that this is one where it's better to be fairly overzealous in giving the benefit of the doubt to the hurdling team.
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As a driver, I noticed many instances where <G42> should have been called but wasn't, and times when it really didn't matter and it was called.
Example: I was standing in the on-deck watching, and calling out penalties to the rest of my drive team and watching timid refs. But that's another subject and can go under "Referee inconsistencies" or whatever.
Example 2: We got a hurdler interference with less than 3 seconds left for bumping into a robot that was JUST starting to raise its lift. The part I had a problem with was that the other 4 robots happened to be blocking the entire track in front of both of us, and theres NO WAY that robot could have hurdled from its position (near its own driver station wall).
And back on topic about scoring problems...I think they're usually fixed when they are brought to the attention of the head ref/scorekeepers. I know one of the matches Friday morning at SVR was scoring lines with only 1 point each. Someone pointed out how they had an odd score and they quickly changed it back even though it didn't affect the final outcome.