Did the refs make a good call in the semi-finals of the Cleveland Regional

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Originally posted by AnimatorSarah
1: This affected my teams autonomous mode, team #85's autonomous mode ran instead of team #378.
2: I personally witnessed a FIRST official step on the pressure mat, causing the autonomous modes to be corrupted. However, at the time, I did not realize the threat this posed to the outcome of the match. Also, with the heat of the competition, I felt it better to play out the match rather than abandon my controls and pusue the attention of the referees.

1: If the autonomous mode was set to allow your 3rd partner, your controls would have the same problem. You would not have been able to drive your bot at all. This I could see as means for a rematch.

2: I saw the official step on it too also (via video, and clearer from soap's video). You may have decided to keep driving yes.. but you could have easily told your Human Player or Coach to get the attention of a Ref nearby. (They could have also).

Your human player should have been the first to say something when he saw your autonomous start going when he knew it wasn't supposed to.