Vadim
March 6, 2023, 3:00pm
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Its my understanding that vidoes can not be used to solve match violation disputes… (etc) what is the reasoning for this?
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Have you seen what instant replay does in the NFL or other major sports that use it? Every match would get dragged out for so much longer while folks try to air grievances. And video may not clearly show everything; as was pointed out on a previous thread last week, video can’t show if a string is actually touching a tile or not, so it can’t even be a complete record for all cases.
Keeps things moving along at a reasonable pace, really.
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Please use the search bar, I’m pretty sure this topic has been beaten to the death on here.
As mentioned above, this could work well where the support exists to make it happen… but may well come at extra expense.
But have a bit of empathy for the hosts of your local 30 team tournament where you’ve got a small team of volunteers giving up a big chunk of their weekend so a bunch of kids can play robot.
Quite frankly, if the volunteers aren’t having fun then they aren’t coming back. They all try to make the right call every time, and they understand that not everyone is going to agree w…
As we all know, judges are volunteers that put aside their personal lives for full days to help out at tournaments. However, this is accompanied by some degree of imperfection.
Over the last few days, I’ve been fortunate enough to compete at the Create Us Open tournament and get to play with and against some of the best robots in the world. (And Pigpen doubled up their chain so that was pretty cool too.) But because judges are humans who make mistakes, I want to suggest a system for video re…
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lacsap
March 6, 2023, 3:22pm
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there is no ideal perspective - the Referee is applying the rules as they are seeing the game played.
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Vadim
March 7, 2023, 3:02pm
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thank you engineermike! I appreciate that insight, It had not occurred to me in that manner.
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system
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March 6, 2024, 3:03pm
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