FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[Dave McLaughlin]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

This is the most valid argument for sending them to champs. No one who watched them play will argue that they are of less caliber than teams who are already going to champs or may be sitting on the wait-list either.

Aside from the fact that in this case 3 teams who had not in fact won championship bids would recieve them. Imagine if the mc at central had come out and said that a disc had been missed and the correct score was in favor of the red alliance but the ruling of a blue alliance victory was not going to be over turned. Should the red alliance then be given bids as well because they were told they had in fact won the match but would not be credited the win? How would the blue alliance feel knowing that their victory was false and empty?

In my opinion it is just a shame that it ended this way, and giving bids to the blue alliance would set a dangerous prescendent.