[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Un Luchador

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.

Did 1764 post videos? Because I know for sure the Colorado School of Mines Robotics Club and a mentor from FRC1583-Rambotics was recording the video feed, rendered the video, webcasted with a 2 hour delay, and upload to frc.qnetalpha.com, as far as I know, it's updated to Match 45...

Originally Posted by PrincessJae

Being a rookie team, and attending San Diego and Colorado i felt that my first experience between the regionals were very different. Besides San Diego being more fast paced and louder, the referees were very open to any challenges of their calls. They changed the score on one of my teams matches because they thought that knocking off an opponents ball from the overpass with your own ball was illegal. In which after they announced about 3 times to everyone.

In colorado, in the opening ceromonies when introducing the refs they announced that all of their calls were final and there would be no rematches played. In san diego one match was replayed 3 times. I also noticed that in san diego the challenge box was clearly labeled. In colorado it was a box with a question mark in it. we had some questions the first day about timeouts and brought it to the judge and he seemed to have no idea about them.

Well, it's not the judges job to really know the rules, the judges just judge each team based on the rubric they are given...