Referees refusing to change score

[hardcopi]

We had one match where they didn't count any of the autonomous for our alliance. The refs waited a full match before answering our question and just said that they couldn't remember. That was not fun.

This past weekend we had a couple matches where for 15-30 seconds the refs didn't click the button so we couldn't get the ball. We were told since it was a ref error and not a field malfunction we couldn't get a replay.

Still even with that said the game today is MUCH better than 3 weeks ago. We had events the last 3 weeks in a row. It was so amazing to see the kinks worked out that next year I'd like to see us just do the last couple weeks of the season.

In St Joe last weekend fouls rarely decided a match and when they did it was pretty obvious (parts getting ripped off other bots, etc). Rarely did a foul happen that everyone said "What was that for?".

[Shu]

Originally Posted by BigBen

Personally, I think something as simple as one more official per team focusing on the ball, keeping track of just the assists/scoring and lighting of the pillar when the score happens, to allow the refs to do their job of policing the field would have stopped many of the issues we have seen over the last few weeks of competitions.

This is it exactly. I have seen way too many assists not credited and we have also had goals not scored at all. In most cases, the refs are not able to go back and recall everything that occurred during the match to make the proper call. I hope something is done about this at least before championships.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Shu

This is it exactly. I have seen way too many assists not credited and we have also had goals not scored at all. In most cases, the refs are not able to go back and recall everything that occurred during the match to make the proper call. I hope something is done about this at least before championships.

It seems especially odd that these positions were not included this year, as in other years without automatic scoring, like 2011, there was a dedicated Scorekeeper position.