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[Allison K]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

"There are no ... re-matches."

is this a new rule for this year? In the past matches were played over in certain circumstances, even in the semifinals.

I remember one, two years ago I think. A team did not want their bot to run during auton mode, so they told their human player to not stand on the control mat.

The ref standing nearby told him he had to stand on the mat, and having auton mode run messed up their strategy. The ref didnt realize they didnt want the HP to stand on the mat.

After the match the team complained, and the whole match was replayed.

Maybe you mean something else by 'rematch'? or is this a new rule?

2003 at buckeye a very similar thing happened to my team (what you're describing may have been us, it was the semifinals, there was a giant thread about it). There a ton of confusion about whether it was the ref's fault (the ref either stepped on the mat, or told the HP too) or the teams fault (they switched control stations accidentally setting off the wrong auton, or just didn't see things right), and by the time they got to the point where they made the call to run a rematch, there really wasn't anything that could be done to be fair to both sides, so they did the best they could at the time. It was specifically stated in the rules that there will be not rematches, but the ref thought it to be the most fair thing to do at the time. So it seems that the ref's desicion overrode the rules in this case. I'm won't go into any more detail unless prompted, as I'm probably a bit biased.

~Allison