Curie Semifinal 1 - 3, what happened?

[Tyler 783]

Ok I don't normaly post, but I beleive this thread warrents a post. I'll state right now I am not taking sides, I'm actualy not going to say anything about what calls were made, or what people 'should have done'. I'm just going to try and put some things in perspective.

Ok for those of you who don't know me (or at least don't know me by name) I have been (for the past two years) the Lead Team Queuer of the the GTR and the Waterloo regional, so in this capacity I have had a chance to talk to pretty much every drive team of every team who has competed at those two regionals. I was also on my own teams' Drive team for 3 years, so I also know the exitement and adrenaline of the action on the feild.

Ok now to the two points that I wanted to talk about.

Firstly since I wasn't there and have only watched the match once I do not think it fair for me to make any claims as such. What I realy want to talk about is the excitment of the moment, I know from my years driving the robot that during the competition you are very very excited. Some things you do in this state you may regret latter on. Also that in this state you are more then likley to become excited when there is a sudden advantage you have gained. I know from personal experience from driving the robot that during matches I've become excited at times, that in hindsight I beleive I should not have for various reasons. I don't beleive that in times like these that most people (not all but most) could do things that wouldn't be in character. I beleive that the way that things are handeled after the situation are more important, and the feelings of regret are sometimes almost punishment enough.

Secondly everyone seems to be going on hard about the refing. You have to remember that there are only a limited number of referees watching any one given feild, and that all the referees are volunteers. I know personaly from volunteering that at everymoment I try my best to make sure everything happens the way it should be and try my best to do the job assigned for me. I am sure that it is the same for all of the other volunteers in FIRST. This being said what more would you want to have seen done?