Silicon Valley Regional (2016)

[Monochron]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

A few clarifications here:

According to our alliance captains retelling of the referee's explanation, the original scoring gave 1662 a challenge and 1678 a scale. Both robots were on the batter. 254 was given neither challenge or scale points (and was clearly not on the batter at the end of the match).

After we challenged the decision, thinking 254 was contacted by 3303 in the last 20 seconds, the referees discussed. They determined that 1678 and 1662 were both interfered with by 3303 in the last 20 seconds and gave both robots scale points.

I still believe that 254 deserved the scale points, and I believe the video shows this to be the case.

I think both alliances handled the situation very well, as uncomfortable as it was. However, there was quite a bit of boo-ing from the audience after the scoring change. I think this has become one of the unfortunate cultures at SVR, and it isn't the first time that 254 has been boo-ed at this event.

-Mike

It's great to see that scores will be changed after a match if referees discuss and agree on a bad call. We have had multiple matches in eliminations this year where we have challenged calls, been told that we were right, and that the refs would "keep an eye on the situation" in the next matches.
It could be because in your situation, the change in score would have swayed the match the other way, where in ours it wasn't cut and dry.

Either way there is a lot of stress going in to making those calls, it's no easy job.