Missed auto ball scoring errors

[FrankJ]

I am glad it was not the margin of winning. But as you say, it is hard to tell what might have been. You a had a great alliance. Well played game.

[Lil' Lavery]

This is something we experienced a couple times at the Sprinside-Chestnut Hill district. It happened under two different head refs (the first had a family emergency, and was unable to attend on Saturday), but I'm unsure if it was the same ref inputting the score or not. The first time was a qualification match where it did not impact the score (thanks to a G40 foul), but we still asked and were informed it would be corrected (though it looks like it never was). The second occured in QF1-3, where a ball was scored immediately as tele-op began after 304 did not shoot in autonomous. One of the students in the stands noticed that the red alliance was credited with 15 points for the score, and their final score indicated 70 autonomous points. This did impact the outcome of the match, with the red alliance winning 132-129. Our driver initially went to the question box alone, but wasn't able to convince the head ref that the error had occurred. He then returned with representatives of both of our alliance partners (3974, 4373) and one of the members of the opposing alliance (4342) to challenge the score again. The head ref ultimately opted for a replay of the match to occur due to a scoring error. 4342 agreeing to help with our challenge of the match was one of the better examples of GP I've seen in a while, as if they lost the replay their season would essentially be over (the only chance they had at reaching MAR champs was through earning 30 points in the eliminations). Ultimately, the replay resulted in a 179-107 win for the blue alliance, changing which alliance advanced to the semi-finals.

[MisterJ]

My team participated in the alliance that Lil' Lavery mentioned above. If this match wasn't corrected and replayed, it's likely that none of the three teams on blue (1712, 3974, and 4373) would have have made it to Lehigh. With the 10 points earned in the replay match by winning the quarterfinal series, all three teams did.

Every point counts.

[qzrrbz]

Just had another blatant example of this in Vegas SF2-1

At end of auto, blue 1717 hadn't moved and was holding two balls, the other ball had missed, so blue auto was 5. Eventually 1717 came to life and shot both his balls high, and the other ball was pushed high.

End of the match, Blue auto read 50!

It didn't matter, but, well, this issue needs more exposure for sure. The importance level only goes UP from here!