WOW-- Did I miss something?

[Tim Delles]

Originally Posted by Liz Smith

That is the way the play was called. It is over. It's unfortunate that your team got DQed, but thats just the way it is. Bringing up the issue over and over isn't going to change anything.

I am personally offended that you would imply that the referees on the field were biased. None of the referees on that field were against your team, or any other team in the competition. To say that the referees made a call you disagree with is one thing, to say that they made a call because they were biased is not right. You should really think before you post. By making implications like this, it only reflects poorly on you and your team.

I must say that if you believe that people are 100% unbiased then you are clearly wrong.

However I would venture to say that Aiden Brown is they most unbiased person you could have as a referee. But after watching that match over and over, and having seen it with my own eyes (i was watching 71 because i wanted to see those neat ramps deploy since they are similar to ours).

Personally I would have made the same call (including against my own team) There was contact made outside of the given bumper zone that resulted in a team being tipped over. If this contact had not been made then there would have been no tipping of the Beast. Also your drivers continued to drive while the Beast rocked and then finally went over. If it had not been a DQ for hitting outside of the bumper zone I would not have been suprised if you had been DQ'd for intentional tipping, because after looking at the footage and pictures that i have and that have been posted it looks as though the Beast was tipped on purpose (I don't know what happened since i am not one of your drivers. all im saying is what it looked like)

But now as for the comment that there should be a group of Head Refs. I do not agree with this. Soon people are going to be asking for Instant Replay to determine things on the field. When will this choas stop. Every year there are a group of people who aren't happy with the ref-ing at the Championship. Given sometimes it is sketchy, the only real thing that they need to work on is getting unity to the calls made.

Sorry your team didn't win that match, but it just happened. You can't win them all. Best of luck next year