Video Review Needs to Happen Now

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I'm contesting that the numerous cans of worms opened by video review aren't going to make things better.

Scenario A: The head referee makes what they thought was the correct call based on the evidence at the time, but later finds out the call was actually wrong. The call was match deciding and one alliance goes home denied of an event win.

Scenario B: The head referee makes what they think is the correct call. One alliance uses their once per elimination tournament challenge card requiring the head referee to look at the match with the captains from the alliance to explain his reason for the call. This also gives ample opportunity for the challenging alliance to provide specific rules or Q&A's to support their challenge. A match replay is issued if the head ref confirms & agree with the challenge's claims or the results stand as called if the head referee doesn't seem evidence to overturn the call.

There are definitely times where something like this could have came in handy. Look back to San Diego last year where the incorrect call was made and was admitted to be wrong once the Q&A was produced. Maybe having that challenge would have given them a moment to find the Q&A and take another look at the situation?

My point is it's worth taking a look at and talking about. This could give referees another tool to help them out when making very tough calls. Why wouldn't we want to help our referees out?