Video Review Needs to Happen Now

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Originally Posted by bkahl

Any reason you felt the need to make an anonymous account for this thread?

Just curious

Partially because, I don't actually have another account otherwise. (long time reader though.) And partially to abstract away my background, and just focus on the information that I have to provide as a technical professional and my experience as a volunteer.

Originally Posted by frcguy

I'd say it took us around 5-10 minutes to check everything, decide, and edit the scores.

I think your right that the time could be improved, but for something such as a re-scoring a match, you can't do that in less then 3 minutes. and that does not include the time needed to verify that you entered the right scores and everyone agrees. Let alone if you wish to analyze other aspects of the match on video as well.

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

Wow,
it puts the emphasis on the wrong part of the event: who won. We need to take the best of the sports model, not the entire thing.

I also as a alumni and mentor, have to agree 100% with wilsonmw04. Yes, winning the event is a great experience. As someone who never made it to finals while on a team, I hope that every student has the chance to get there, but FIRST is not about winning, its about learning and spreading STEM, business and professionalism. In college and business, you can't go to your professor, boss, or a client and tell them that they did something wrong and expect them to re evaluate a grade or business decision just cause you have evidence supporting your case. As a free lance software developer, I have lost bids, and when seeing the final product produced by the competition, known that I should have won it, but I can't change the clients mind when they made the decision.

If teams members think that matches are reffed poorly, then those teams should be providing mentors to volunteer as refs so that they have someone that will do a better job, and at that point you might see that its not as easy as you think to make the calls they do.