Offseason Video Review Pilot-Volunteers?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally Posted by patar8746

[*]You have ideas on rule variations that could be tried at these events and reasons why they might work better[/list]

In tennis, each player gets X challenges. If the video challenge is called in favor of the player, they keep the challenge. If the player is wrong, the challenge is used up.

With the "one challenge each" approach described in the first post of this thread, I think a good variant is "one incorrect challenge." That way, if the team has multiple bad calls, they can keep benefitting from them. However, they can't waste time with multiple silly ones.

One problem in tennis is that towards the end, a player will challenge just in case. Because the challenge is no good shortly, they might as well take a change and use it. Maybe FIRST can counter that with GP - only challenge if you really think the refs were wrong.

The other thing tennis does is have music and audience participation (clapping for drama) for challenges. Which adds some ceremony. I bring up tennis because the sport resisted video replays for a LONG time and they worked out well.

Note: I'm not sure what I think of video challenges in FIRST, but that's irrelevant to my posting ideas.