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"Week 2 results indicated that this change was successful."

Hmmm. Like many others who have commented, our 1.2 sec. minibot smacked the target with a substantial impact in Week 2 (my calculations say in excess of 100 N), and yet did not result in a trigger light a couple of times. Clearly with all the antecdotal evidence there is still a phenomenon occuring which can miss an impact of adequate force. Any mechanical action has both a time and force component, and perhaps the rules should have specified both. Like any control system the field system has a controller with a finite scan rate, and any control system is capable of missing a signal if it is short enough. I am a little nervous about a statement that essentially says "we have determined the system is now perfect" if that means no provision will ever be made for correcting a result when it is clearly wrong. I'm grateful we are not playing again until Week 6 to give some time for this issue to get sorted out. Let's hope no Week 3 teams experience any problems which effect their results.