Some thoughts on rules, refs, and ranking

[Siri]

Originally Posted by darkember

I dont think FIRST is going to touch this topic very much. Its not something that can be discussed easily. In the update you can see that an indirect reference was made to NYC regional problems, to be more specific the bandwidth issues with the field and cameras. A c++ update was released with fixes to the smartdash, which is where my team noticed trouble when we were on the field. After reading the updates I can conclude that FIRST will try to resolve the issue without actually bringing it up. That is just my opinion i can be wrong.

That particular problem was in no way limited to NYC, though it was uncommonly bad there. (Actually, the G25 interpretations also weren't NYC-limited.) As to the others, I suspect the 'turn off your dashboard' will be unannounced, but it'd be nice if they could publicly standardize disc placement and feeder station procedure.

As for G25, I've put in a Q&A, Q577. I suspect it'll take some follow-ups to edge anything but "Reasonably Astute Observer" out of the GDC. (Entirely unfair, as Head Refs are more than reasonably astute and they obviously disagree about this.)

Does G25 have the potential to apply (at the referees' discretion) to all types of 2-on-1 defense, or is the intent limited to field-centric blocks? Could intentionally impeding 1 robot with 2 defenders qualify as blockading if no other match flow is stopped?