Bad Ref Calls

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion
#41

Yes. The 5" traction wheel is a VRC product. Just have documentation in case the inspector or ref are new enough to not know they are a retired product for VRC.

#42

You are forgetting about the 5" traction wheels that were a VRC product for years. Additionally, you could start with a 4" wheel and build it our using VRC legal rubber bands. There are other ways you could build it out using Vex legal parts to come up with a 5" fly wheel but, as I said building it our would not work as well as using legal 5" wheels (not flex wheels). 5" wheels product number is 276-1498

#43

While I am only a middle schooler I do ref for in class scrims.

#44

This was not my team but they were from my school and they were playing defense and the robot they were defending chain snapped. Then they got a DQ for assistive defense. but it was a building issue.

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#45

At the last spin up tournament I went to, the ref’s and scorekeepers were not well educated. I think it was the school’s second year doing tournaments, so its understandable.
A ref misread the rule that says you can’t expand in the low goal, and thought it meant that you couldn’t shoot in the low goal. There were a bunch of cata teams that shoot partially from partially within the low goal. It didn’t affect matches much, but they DQ’d anyone that shot within the low goal.

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