2008 Greater Toronto Regional!

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by J Flex 188

Referee's have about the hardest job in a single FIRST event. Until you have been through the challenges of attempting to pay attention to about a million different things going on, it may be wise to hold off on judgement in terms of his response to you.

Since I was not there, I cannot comment on the validity of your concerns in terms of how the rules were enforced. But what I can say, knowing the head referee, is that he has been doing this for a long time and he would not intentionally attempt to bias, disregard or ignore any calls that he is supposed to be making.

Being a mentor means understanding more than a student on the team and holding yourself to even higher standards than what you would expect of those same students. It is hard in the heat of competition to restrain yourself and compose an objective opinion, but it must be done in order to have your voice heard.

Congratulations to all the teams that competed this weekend!

It could just be that I am comparing to waterloo, which was so very well reffed (I am still working on re-watching all the videos of the 168 point match tho, and yes, i am thinking that it didn't actually happen.)

And yes, i do realize that this game is very difficult to keep track of, but if something like this happens on the Einstein field i think your going to find a large amount of very annoyed teams.