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Re: Refereeing
I think you need as much consistency throughout events as possible. When each ref is given significant latitude to make calls, its just not fair, as Eric pointed out).
It is worse yet when freedom affects individual matches. A perfect example of this was at regional this year. There was one ref who was responsible for watching a quarter of the field on the blue alliance scoring zone. The ref called atleast one penatly each match. Since mostly blue alliance robots were in that zone (to score), the blue alliance almost always had more penalties than the red alliance. Plenty of matchs were decided by penalties. Myself and a couple of other scouts quickly noticed this ref constantly waive his flag and were going to tell our drivers to simply avoid the portion of the field that ref watched (it was worth taking the extra couple of seconds to go to the other goal than getting a penalty). Thankfully, someone noticed this ref call a disproportional amount of penalties and switched him to watching the driver station. I believe most his calls were correct, but the ref was calling every minor penalty while the other refs were giving teams the benefit of the doubt.
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