Movement Towards Video Review

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Originally Posted by thehotsauceman

Any ideas on what could be used then if anything?

If you look at most sports common fouls are not usually reviewable so in the case of FRC something like a pin shouldn't be reviewable. What should be reviewable are things like assists in Aerial Assist, barrier crosses in Stronghold, and any penalties that would result in yellow or red cards. These types of things have score impacts and are very easy to review. The problem with reviewing something like pinning is that it is very subjective and would take too long. If FIRST were to implement a replay type system, it shouldn't be used in qualifications as it would take too long but instead they can give each alliance 3 challenges for the elimination rounds. At championship teams should be given 3 challenges in their divisor playoffs and then another 3 challenges for Einstein. I think this system would solve a lot of the missed calls in important elimination matches.

I also think that referees should not handle scoring and should only focus on calling fouls. FRC is the only sport were the ref has to look for fouls and keep track of the score at the same time, that is it too much for one person. They should have score keepers that handle scoring and refs who handle fouls.