[FRC4ME]

Yes, the field has issues. Just realize that every team has the same chance of experiencing those issues. Field problems don't stack the odds against any particular team, though I'm sure it may feel like you experience them at the worst possible times.

Think of it this way: if the difference between your performance and that of a winning team was small enough that a few seconds of communication issues was enough to alter the outcome, does it really matter who got the trophy? I'm sure it matters greatly to you now, but in the long run it won't.

Take this as motivation to improve your software next year, so that you can win regardless of field issues. There is no guaranteed success in engineering; only a probability of success. Yours could have been 0.99 this year, and you just happened to hit that unlucky 1%. So next year make it 0.999.