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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
I've sat through 1-1/2 regionals at the scorekeeper's table. The only people with a better view at an FRC match are the referees. I didn't see a single incident where a referee drove a robot back across a line, drawing a <G22> penalty. As far as I'm concerned, driver mistakes are changing the results of matches, not referee rulings.
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I have been on the other-side as a drive for my team inn past years and what I can say is this.
1) I accept 100% of the responsibility for what happens when I'm driving the Robot on the field.
2) It is Very hard sometimes to see the Robot across the field. There are other Robots in your way and Its really hard to tell exactly how much room you have and when you cross the line. As one referee has said (seattle regional) you Robot draws a penalty the second a single atom crosses the line. That can be very hard to tell from 50+ feet away. Then there's the line penalties in Hybrid when no one not even the Robo Coach is diving.
It not the referees fault its part of the game but a ten point penalty for something that is 100% unintentional is never good.
Plus in past year the Referees have been flat out wrong about some calls on the field and have had to correct them.
I think the referees do the best they can, but sometime they just don't know the rules, not every time but sometime (SVR).