Week 1 Analysis

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Originally Posted by Madison

FIRST is consistently unable to create game rules that refs can enforce appropriately and is consistently unable to create a process and system that allows teams to remain connected to the field and operational for an entire match, so of course they'd design a game that relies heavily on each of those things.

It's understandably tough to get all the assists exactly as they happen, especially with good teams playing. What's frustrating is there seems to be no way for a referee to update a score after it happened (or they just don't care). Alamo's announcer called out multiple mistakes and once warned a team to wait a second for the ref to add an assist, but no correction was ever made.

Watching 118's shots bounce out of the poorly designed goal and watching 148 spin in circles because their drivers were bored was real disappointing.

Knowing the rules is really great, especially for the referees, who failed to disable a robot without bumpers.

On a more positive note, the new score display is kind of better. It's no longer 4:3, it's higher resolution, and it's got more info.
One comment- the rank numbers and green assist circles aren't obvious to understand. Also, the matches seem to be roughly 2 sec longer that they're supposed to be.