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

[Scott Duhaime]

Originally posted by M. Krass
GM3 states that FIRST reserves the right to replay a match in the event of human error. There was an error made on the part of FIRST personnel at the event and the officials decided this warranted a rematch. End of story.

The point here is the only error made was the decision to play the rematch. Every advatage and disadvatage was given to both side for the driver station mix up leaving the first time perfectly fair. Being that the human players stayed mixed on the one side is not the error FIRST but that of the teams involved. So why should they be rewarded with a rematch because they failed to switch human players. I do relize that this most likely was not infomation that was brought up at the competition, but it does show the vaildness of the match.

As for the whole nats thing, I know not everyone would agree but in this case it appears to be the only fair thing to do. By no means would I want to discredit those who did win. But we did everything required and weren't even allowed to try. Just try and look from Alliance #6's point of view. Here you have three bots that work great together, they manage a come from behind win then are force to replay a perfectly fair match still win the match but fall just short of offsetting the first lose.