MAR Competitions

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Foster

I did like your brute force method of 6 people to watch, one for each robot. Techhelpbb offered to help on fixing it, he's part of MAR, I'm sure he can wrangle 5 friends.

Here's how I wrangle 6 more people....
OH KIDS! Guess what you are going to be doing today

Seriously the people are only part of the solution.
You need some way to reach a resolution between them because with 6 more people you need fast consensus between 12 people.
To keep the game consistent you still need the referees in their existing positions.

BTW you do not necessarily have to integrate the sensors into the field systems.
You could put something to do the data collection and scoring on the side of the field and put the data from that into the field.
If you really want to get crazy - type the scores in manually into either the field side panels or the controls on the desk next to the field (only with permission from FIRST obviously).
It's not like you don't already have the opportunity to mishandle data - otherwise this topic wouldn't exist.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Carl_the_Llama

How would that make me an adult? Im 100% sure that the point of the ref is to get all the calls right. In football, teams expect the ref to get all the calls right. If we cant expect them to do so, we might as well just play by the honor system. Ill recant my statment about the volunteers thinking they are better but, I stand by my position on the refs.

It would give you some wisdom, which is a defining feature of adulthood.

Originally Posted by Carl_the_Llama

I can definitely see you getting mad at a ref in football for making a wrong call. You expect them to get all if not 99.999999999999% of the calls right in football or any other sport, why should it be different for this?

Fourteen nines? Really? If you knew just a little math you would realize how dumb you sound here.

Anyway: No, even for a well-understood game refs are not perfect, simply because of practical things like sight lines. Thus the challenge and video review in the NFL (an explicit recognition that refs are not perfect), but this is not practical for FRC. It's a game, played for fun. Nobody gets paid.

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

By the way, if you're going to talk trash, at least do it with your team name and number showing. Don't be a coward about it.

Thank you Akash.

Originally Posted by Libby K

But the answer to this isn't "Why does [event, region, person, whatever] suck?" it's "How do we make this better?"

Spot on Libby.

And thank you Ryan, as always you continue to make me very proud.

And so, Carl the Llama, whoever you happen to be: Does any of this mean something to you? Is there perhaps an inkling of what we're trying to say getting in there? I truly hope so.

Does it suck to have bad calls? Yes, of course, but that happens in real life too - better to learn how to manage is gracefully here than, say, at the wrong end of some cop's gun.

Don