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What is VAR? I thought it’d be some coding challenge about car, let, const It looks like it could mean Visual Automated Referee. Or Video Assisted Referee
by jbverschoor 6y ago
What is VAR? I thought it’d be some coding challenge about car, let, const
It looks like it could mean Visual Automated Referee. Or Video Assisted Referee
- livre 6y agoThe way I've seen it implemented is as "Video Assisted Referee" and it's just a bunch of people outside the field looking at different screens and determining whether someone was offside or not. It's just some extra eyes in addition to the people in the field. I haven't seen the other definition (the automated one).
- PhillyG 6y agoVideo assistant referee - basically extra referees who help to make decisions by watching replays - used in many major Football (soccer) tournaments. In the offside rule (used in Pro competitions) you can't pass to a teammate, who is stood nearer to the opposing teams goal than any of the opposing team, excluding the goalkeeper. Subtle, brief, hard to spot infractions of the offside rule are possible. So one use of VAR is: when the regular referees think someone may have been offside during the lead up to scoring, they can pause the game and wait for the VAR team to look through where people where when the pass in question happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assistant_referee