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Re: 08 Colorado Controversy

Throughout the competition, as hillale has already mentioned, the referees were unaware of several rules and seemed to be a bit overwhelemed with the task of making decisive actions. Apperantly there was at least one video shown to concerned teams and the head referee that proved there was a faulty count in regards to the counting of two blue alliances' matches. In this video, trackballs crossing the finish line were not given points.
We would like the team, I believe it was 1764, to post the video. It's not exactly a challange against the established final scores, rather an incident that should be brought to light.
As for the probability of the red alliance winning every final match, which is what was brought up during a challange to a referee as being under .00000000000005% chance, there are many other factors that contribute towards the chances of this happening, including the fact that the red alliance begins with the highest seeded team. It's not analogous to flipping a coin, as someone had brought up at the competition.
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