Movement Towards Video Review

[rich2202]

Originally Posted by apache8080

FRC is the only sport were the ref has to look for fouls and keep track of the score at the same time

Baseball umpires call runs at home plate.
Football refs call touchdowns, field goals, and safeties.

All sports, the Ref calls when a score has happened or not.

In FRC, the Ref's call some scores (crossings), but they don't keep track of the score (FMS does that).

I also think that referees should not handle scoring and should only focus on calling fouls.

IMHO, there are some things that can be handled by Field Stewards, like they did with Recycle Rush. I think there should have been Field Stewards doing boulder counting in the Castle, and letting Ref's know when they are at 6.

They had Ref's watching crossings, so having a Field Steward do it won't improve anything, other than freeing up a Ref to watch for fouls.

IMHO, FRC should have added one more ref, and done 1-on-1 ref'ing with one ref watching one robot for the entire match. Maybe do it during Practice Matches to see how it goes. The Ref won't miss a crossing (although still has a problem with sight lines for the Sally Port). Ref won't miss the start of a Pin (although the actual start can be subjective, but it should happen more promptly). The Ref for the robot that causes a foul enters it into the panel.