The Fraud of FTC Worlds - How FTC & FIRST have failed me forever.

[MattRain]

Originally Posted by gblake

. So... Dear OP - There was no "Fraud of FTC Worlds" because of the event staff deciding not to replay that match. The four teams involved in that match asked the FTC event staff to violate FTC rules, and they got the exact answer that they should have expected.

Blake

There was not a violation of rules here. Read them. The fact that the refs did not want to replay a match to stay on schedule is just wrong (Even though its not in the G14 rules, I know). I have run as head ref in some Arizona qualifiers, and this is just plane wrong. They teams came together to show that it was wrong. They were ignored. End of story. I agree with the OP that they should have had a replay of the match.

Over the 5 years that we have been to Worlds, we have run into problems of this factor. Field communications dropping, us holding the controllers buy the cords, and the robots still running..... all of the issues came back to us, saying they would not replay the matches.... it has happened every year, and is just plane wrong. We had extra time sitting around before awards and such that could have been used to replay a 5 minute match that really could have changed the ranking/game.