MAR Competitions

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

Unless I really hit my head hard, didn't we have scorekeepers hold a plunger in 2015 after we needed them in 2014? I guess you could say that the scoring was far less subjective in 2015 than 2014 for assist points, but wouldn't we say that crossing a defense is pretty cut and dry?

Just like Aerial Assist, I like the core game mechanics and I understand it can't be automated, but it seems like ease in the administration of points was left by the wayside after it was an obvious lesson learned from 2014-2015.

It's incredibly hard to justify blaming a person for what is pretty obviously a systemic issue.

It actually COULD be automated. Robot RFID chips and field based readers could actually provide fairly precise location data. I know Zondag did some research and he found something stupid accurate. But this conversation was years ago and I don't remember the number. So we could absolutely track where teams are and automate transitions.

Originally Posted by Carl_the_Llama

Video replays would definitely be useful for playoff rounds. Yes it would take up time but the competitions are usually behind schedule anyway. The 2014 Mt Olive competition is a fantastic example. The winning team committed a tech foul that would've lost the competition for them. Someone had the match recorded and found the tech foul and went to bring it to the judges, but they didn't accept it as evidence.

Pet Peeve - JUDGES are not Refs. Refs, or Zebras as we sometimes call them, are responsible for rulings on the field. Judges generally have no clue what the rules of the game are (seriously, it's a 10 minute primer or so... less if the coffee hasn't arrived yet) Refs seem to have more spatial and temporal awareness than Judges too as I've yet to see a head ref have to spend 15 minutes of opening ceremonies frantically searching for their refs. I'm open to donations of bells [1]

And oh god no, no instant replay, no video review. That will make the events drag on. Think match turn times are bad now? Add in 6 teams all with videos of "calls" the refs "missed". Yeah, events would need to be 2 weeks long.





[1] Which, yes, I will make the judges wear at Boston if someone donates enough bells. I threatened funny hats last year.