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Re: ARENA Fault

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Originally Posted by rspurlin View Post
The posted results do not list components of the score, just the final result. So I'm confused. Do you mean that after the match, red was announced as the winner, yet sometime later some penalties disappeared and blue became the winner?
Yes. It was a nice surprise when we saw it that night seeing as how it was our originally our only loss.

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As a hypothetical situation, had such a situation happened at our event (discovery after the match results were announced that an error needed to be corrected affecting the outcome) the head ref would go to each of the teams involved in the match to explain what had happened and what the new ruling was. After all teams are notified, a general announcement would be made by the MC and/or head ref to the crowd, explaining what happened and what the new ruling was. Because the revised score would be committed to FMS as soon as the new ruling is reached, rankings would reflect the fact first.
I know the ref did not talk to myself personally and everyone on the teams was shocked when they saw that we ended up going undefeated so I do not believe the head ref told anyone.

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I'm surprised about the ball counters at your event. At ours, we think they worked flawlessly. We tested them Wed night, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings. I'm not aware of any complaints that a score was incorrect relative to the ball counters at our event.
It worked during practice and possibly for Q1. From then on out the live score on the board was never correct for the blue alliance and you had to wait till the end to see it. It made it nearly impossible to try and keep a 1 point margin between the winners and losers not knowing the score. So we altered our strategy and went with score as many points as possible at all times.
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