[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

There is one other time that it is important for teams to unplug the cRIO from the DLink -- if you are in the finals and are tethering the robot to prepare it for the next match of the finals (for example, performing a system check or compressing air to have full tanks for the next match).

That makes sense.
The field staff must leave the previous match teams up in FMS until the scores and penalties have been debated and submitted. I sometimes borrow one of the unoccupied player stations to test laptop link-ups in those moments (setting the laptop to one of the absent team #s).