Referees refusing to change score

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by aryker

This seems strange to me. Why aren't refs allowed to look at replay videos when making a decision? It's done in sports like football, and it seems a bit silly to rely on the memory of a few people when deciding a score that could potentially make or break a team's chance at the championships...

This would be an excellent question for Frank Answers Fridays once those start up again.

I'm guessing that one of the biggest issues here is time. For some aspects of the game such as assists, the refs may need to watch up to the entire 2:30 match to accurately assess the situation. If this happens frequently, we could be adding a significant amount of time to the already long competition days.

[IronicDeadBird]

Why would they review a score and change it if it had no effect on the winner of the game?

[Lone Wolf]

Although we would not have won the match, the assist points would have bumped our team up around three ranks. Also, regarding the comment about the videos' different "angles," this particular instance had nothing regarding angles at all. It was just something that the refs missed.