Week 1 Analysis

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by Laaba 80

I could see from the webcasts when a human player received a penalty. If a human player can't see the ref waving the flag 3 feet from them they need to become more aware. That said, it is unacceptable if a ref calls a penalty without waving the flag, or signaling in some way.

Webcast =/= on the field. I can tell you that from first hand human player experience. When you're worried about getting balls to your robot as fast as possible, you don't notice when a ref is waving his flag. If the safety zone was more noticeable, we'd have a lot less G40s. A small strip of yellow tape isn't really cutting it.

They should just remove the tape and extend the safety zone all the way to the edge of the field.