Stronghold Tower field fault

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

That's absurd. Definitely counts. I suggest sending this along to Frank Merrick or anyone else at FIRST. Posting on CD works and all, but direct emails are better.

Why did your head ref not count this? What was the rationale given? Makes absolutely no sense.

A. The talks took so much time that the semi finals were already being played when the final call was made.

B. They said they are not considering any video evidence and are 100% trusting the field automated counting system.

[adam the great]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

A. The talks took so much time that the semi finals were already being played when the final call was made.

B. They said they are not considering any video evidence and are 100% trusting the field automated counting system.

Just throwing this info to the thread just cause some people might not know about this and assume certain things: But as a Ref you are not allowed to look at any video for a match, not as proof of an error or really for ANY reason. And I'm sure there is a discussion thread somewhere about the pros and cons of that, and it is always unfortunate when a match is called wrong cause something is missed or w.e. But that would be the reason why they can't look at the video and say oh... yah oops our bad.

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by adam the great

Just throwing this info to the thread just cause some people might not know about this and assume certain things: But as a Ref you are not allowed to look at any video for a match, not as proof of an error or really for ANY reason. And I'm sure there is a discussion thread somewhere about the pros and cons of that, and it is always unfortunate when a match is called wrong cause something is missed or w.e. But that would be the reason why they can't look at the video and say oh... yah oops our bad.

And we as a team accept and even agree with their call. We just want this to be avoided by other teams and think it's a simple fix.
Imagine if this happened on Einstein finals...