Yellow card / Red card usage at 2004 IRI

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by MrToast

Perhaps I'm speaking from inexperience here, but it shouldn't be TOO hard to make these calls. I think it wouldn't be that difficult to see when a robot is being really aggresive or damages/disables another robot.

it's not that it is that hard to see intentional...however...the coordination between all of the refs, field crew, knowing which bot to shut off is difficult. at IRI we had probably the best ref crew and scoring/match running crew available in FIRST AND they were right next to each other. Andy was rarely more than 8 ft from Ken and the rest of the scoring table and they still had problems coordinating which bot to turn off at times. not because it is hard, but because it's a noisy, action-packed two minutes and the refs don't want (and the fans and scorers don't want) to have to scream at each other during the match to constantly disable robots for different amounts of time. let the refs watch the match...then make the call. if it needs immediate attention (few things do but it happens) they can take care of that. but let them do their job without having to get that complicated