Week 1 Analysis

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

At the MAR events it looks like refs are pausing matches in the middle of teleop to discuss and assess penalties and assists...?

Jared-

Assuming you're talking about Mt. Olive, the incident involved a match stopped out of safety concerns (I'm almost certain based off the timestamp of a picture I have of why-it'll be posted to CD-media soon). For a short period of time, the match was going to be resumed, hence why the fouls that would be incurred were being discussed. Assists were never a question in the event I believe you're talking of. Eventually, it was determined the match would be reset.


Overall, it was a hectic game for week one. Being that the last 4 games have had some form of a protected zone, teams did not expect the defense that happened.

The biggest issue to me is that field crew/reset is a position this year that doesn't require any sort of game knowledge or training. I have more of an issue with that than Refs having to keep track of posessions* and usual ref stuff; it's just too much to add on ensuring field reset does the right thing.

*I'm differentiating posessions from assists.