Yellow card / Red card usage at 2004 IRI

[Jim Zondag]

I thought the Yellow card/Red card system was great. FIRST has needed something like this for years. I think it was properly enforced at the IRI. The only change that I would make is that if FIRSt continues to award point penalties for other game violations (ie foot faults, robots in ball chute, etc) that there should also be a point penalty associate with a yellow card. After all, breaking the ball chute plane can cause you to lose if you get a penatly, but you more or less get one free game misconduct with a yellow card. A yellow card should have a negative point value so that it has risk of reversing the game outcome if it is awarded.