Should teams be allowed to decline a replay?

[JB987]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

The replay isn't only for the benefit of the affected teams, it's also (and more importantly) for the benefit of the competition. It eliminates a situation where the match wasn't conducted within the agreed-upon parameters. Teams should not be able to decline on behalf of the entire competition, because everyone has an interest in knowing that the rankings reflect the outcomes of correctly-determined matches.

Also, the outcome of the match ought to be defined¹ to include the score, because the rankings consider the score in addition to the win/loss/tie result. (Note that in some FRC games, only the score really mattered.) As a result, the outcome is almost always affected by a field fault.

¹ It's not defined in the rules.

So by extension, every time a team misses even one single point due to maybe a bump or tear in the carpet that wasn't fixed by field resetters before the match they should ask the FTA for a replay, even if they won or lost the match by 200 points because total points may cause a team to miss out on a higher seeding at the end of qualifications? There is a common sense reason "outcome of the match" has traditionally been considered as who won or lost the match itself...the need to keep replays at a bare minimum so an event can be held in a reasonable amount of time.