[Rick TYler]

RE: <G42> was the second-most-called penalty in Seattle. I counted penalties from the scorer's table (there's not much to do DURING the match, except watch ), and I rarely saw a penalty that wasn't called.

One of the things that made Seattle's officiating good, in my opinion, was the number of referees we had. Head ref Fred (a very experienced FRC ref, by the way) had 11 people around the field, and he said that he doesn't think this game can be accurately called with fewer. At the end of each match Fred would hand me a scoring sheet with Red and Blue sections, with each robot listed, and penalties written under the team numbers. We would verbally confirm the sheet, I would enter the penalties and bonuses, and then hand the sheet to Don, our announcer who would then read them. By the time Don was announcing, the final score was ready to display. After the first hour or so on Monday, I think we only delayed two or three matches waiting for the refs to finish discussing the events of a match.