Errors at Colorado Regional

[JohnSchneider]

Originally Posted by AnonymousMarvin

I agree most of the issues by robots were probably due to team, rather than FMS error. I would also like to mention though that even though most of the errors happened to robots, there were plenty of errors on the parts of the Referee's at Colorado. From what I could tell, and the general consensus I have found is that the Referees waited till the end of the match to score or log fouls. This caused some major issues in Refs signaling for fouls during the match and then not logging them at the end of the match. The most obvious case happened in SF 2-1, nothing against these teams just an observation, 2996 had team 4153 pinned against the one point goal the entire match. 2996 was halfway into 4153's robot and could not back out. The ref on the field closest to the goal counted off the foul, waved her flag, and signaled for the foul. Then the head ref came over and counted off an additional foul for a continuous pin. Neither foul was counted at the end of the Match, and cost 1987, 1619, and 4153 the match. Again no offense to 2996, 1410, and 662 but that was the clear cut definition of a pin, the refs called it on the field during the match, but failed to score it, to me that is a huge error, and think that it should be considered that fouls have to be logged the instance that they are called.

No it was not the "clear cut definition of a pin", as 2996 was pushed into the pin by 1619. They were not at fault directly and so neither team should receive a foul under mutual cause. The refs are instructed "When in doubt throw the flag", because they can always take a foul back after discussion. After the match the refs had a conversation and obviously concluded that the pin was not directly 2996's fault and therefore no foul.

http://youtu.be/HQdVzEqjz7E?t=47s