Petition: Lower technical foul values to make this game better

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sircedric4

The first is they have to improve the real time penalty score updating. If you dont know you are fouling you cannot correct. Both match 2 and match 3 of the Arkansas regional finals did not show any penalties on the scoreboard throughout the matches. The score at the end of the match indicated blue alliance wins.

If you had reffed at all this year, you would have known that it's pretty challenging for a ref to input a foul, while still calling all the other stuff they need to call. Often, it's easier to give a half-hearted attempt at calling the foul, and input it at the end, especially with all the other things you have to track. It takes a good 3-5 seconds to input a foul and get back to the scoring screen, not counting time to wave the flag (if you even have one), as well as call to the rest of the refs with what the call was, during which time someone could score a truss-and-catch or a high goal to end a cycle with 3 assists. Miss the latter call, and watch every team in that alliance scream at ya.

So if the ref who sees a foul is on "goal patrol", that is, ending the cycle when the ball scores, then their best option is often to radio the foul to the rest of the refs for signalling and input, particularly if the ball they're tracking is in their end of the field. They don't have flags at those stations (at least, at IE they didn't). Then you gotta check with the head ref at the end of the match to verify that somebody entered it (and get it fixed if it wasn't) and let the head ref know what exactly was called. That way maybe the announcer can announce the right penalties, teams can question, maybe make adjustments.



The one other thing: If you're trusting the realtime scoring, I pity ya. You haven't learned the first thing about FRC's realtime scoring: Don't EVER trust the score on the screen before the match is over and the final score is announced.