Referees and Human Players

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Incidentally, the head referee is entitled to rely upon information from sources other than referees, per [T13]. So even if an event can't station a true referee there, they could theoretically have another trusted, competent volunteer relay notice of the infractions observed. This could be useful in terms of catching coaches operating robots, or illegal human player shots.

I'd like to think I'm competent... trusted, who knows. As a field reset volunteer and wannabe ref, I've tried to notify referees about fouls I've seen... in previous years I was told off by the FTA, and this year the refs seemed to mostly ignore me (as I stated earlier).

I did notice the refs notify the human players several times, including during matches, why they had incurred fouls.