FRC Blogged - Doing the Right Thing

[dodar]

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.

So should any alliances that lost in the finals of a regional because of a referee's opinion of gameplay be given spots at champs? I do feel bad for the alliance that was told they won but actually lost, but they lost; I've been a part of matches where we were told we won but then were overturned and vice-versa, so I do know how this feels. But to allow those teams to go because of a regional staff mistake would open up a can of worms into the "but we lost because of x, but we think we really won, so we think we deserve a spot too."

[Racer26]

Eric, in reply to my earlier post, you implied field reset would have found the disc. Maybe.

They would have taken a quick look around, and if nobody saw it, they'd have grabbed a spare and played on. Game pieces go missing from fields all the time.

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Eric, in reply to my earlier post, you implied field reset would have found the disc. Maybe.

They would have taken a quick look around, and if nobody saw it, they'd have grabbed a spare and played on. Game pieces go missing from fields all the time.

No, it would have been found. When the next match had started the counter would have immediately registered a disc even before a shot was made. That happened somewhere last week when 6 discs were left in the top goal. As soon as the match started the alliance immediately, literally less than a second, jumped out to a 36 point lead. The announcer realized it immediately and made the comment.