08 Colorado Controversy

[FRC1710]

We were the team with all the video of penalties not being counted, penalties being counted against blue teams when they should have been red (the red flag was waved). Hurdles weren't counted from teams. I would like everyone to understand that we were on the 3rd seed so during the first round we played a lower seed and being on Red we saw obvious scoring issues with our opposing alliance. there were several hurdles that were missed and not counted and us being aware of this, when we went to play the second seed we kept track of everything from 4 angles of the field and mutiple people taking scores to make sure that at the end of the match everything was right. With scoring issues BOTH matches against the second seed. We were told by the Referee's that they had multiple people keeping track as well and their technology was better then ours therefore we were wrong and they were right. It became a 30 minute argument with multiple teams against the head referee. It was not just a one match and we saw the issues from both sides. Throughout the tournament there were problems. The Referee's were unorganized and all the teams that had been to past regionals really felt like these Referee's had not even read the rules.

As far as the video goes. We can post if it is really necessary, however, it is done and over with and there is not much that can be done with the video except maybe watch every match and tally up the score of red and blue.