FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

I might be alone here but I think after what happened it's only fair to let both alliances go to Championship. Yes, one alliance didn't win, but to be given something, and then taking it back just seems wrong. ~400 teams will go to Championship. This is a rare mistake. What's 3 more teams?

It's unfair to the other 4 alliances around the country that lost a finals match by 2 or fewer points, including 2 that would have won the event if they had won that match.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Basel A

It's unfair to the other 4 alliances around the country that lost a finals match by 2 or fewer points, including 2 that would have won the event if they had won that match.

There are 4 alliances in FIRST that were declared winners of an event but due to a field crew mistake their win and ticket to Championship was taken away?

EDIT: 1,000th Post

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

There are 4 alliances in FIRST that were declared winners of an event but due to a field crew mistake their win and ticket to Championship was taken away?

EDIT: 1,000th Post

I mean that the same mistake could've been made and missed at any of those events.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by Basel A

I mean that the same mistake could've been made and missed at any of those events.

Yeah absolutely. But since it was made at this event, I feel "Doing the right thing" would have been to allow the losing alliance to go on to Championship.

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

There are 4 alliances in FIRST that were declared winners of an event but due to a field crew mistake their win and ticket to Championship was taken away?

I think the officials caught it at an appropriate time, and handled it well. It was only a matter of minutes, and the level of certainty about the error was high. Once the error was realized, the choice was between deciding the winner on the basis of a human error, or deciding the winner on the basis of a completely legitimate match.

Given the circumstances, they rightly chose change the call and decide the winner based on gameplay.

(If they'd discovered it too late—like as the field was being packed up, after the awards—then it might be a different story.)

[yarden.saa]

The same mistake happened in Israel, they had to go back to quarter finals after the semi finals started..
Something should be changed with the tie breaker system if the field crew are doing the same mistake...

[pfreivald]

While I'm okay with the resolution, I agree with Justin that allowing the losing alliance to go to Championship would have been the best possible call.