Fouls that "Didn't Affect the Outcome of the Match"

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

To answer your question, if the referee doesn't feel confident that the call was a foul, and the referee who had a better view also didn't call a foul then it probably wasn't a foul. Call it the way you see it at the time. Nobody expects different.

Or a possession... Had one match where a team kept asking about a particular possession that wasn't awarded. 3 matches, 3 discussions, and 3 ref checks by the head ref later, we told them something to the effect of, "Look, 3 refs were watching your alliance's robot from at least two different angles. NONE of them thought you had that possession. Sorry, but that's not a possession." As I recall, having the extra 10 points wouldn't have changed the outcome of the match, particularly with an incidental G12 the questioning team had picked up along the way.


That's really all you can do with foul and possession calls: Call it like you see it, and verify you got it right after the match if you think you need to.