[laurenlacy]

While things like this can be frustrating I don't think you were "robbed" of anything. The fact that your alliance lost the replay and that the replay factored into being a semifinalist shows that your alliances were fairly evenly matched. It's not an easy job being a ref, and sometimes it's hard to know whether something is caused by the field or a robot. I can assure you that the refs discuss everything thoroughly, and anything they did was not to "rob" your alliance of the win.

The best part of FIRST is that losing gets you just as much as winning does. I hope you change your mind and see this as an opportunity to display the gracious professionalism that has come to embody the spirit of FIRST, instead of feeling as though you were "robbed" of something.