[bfvaneyck]

- As the FTAA for the Wisconsin And Minnesota North Star Regionals, I, too noticed that the driver station software v1.05 seemed to cause FMS linkup failures. I just told the teams to upgrade to the latest version just to keep that out of the equation.
- And STILL the teams don't seem to understand that having the Developer account logged in (in the background) is a bad thing!!
- Although the FIRST instructions for setting up a non-classmate laptop are very specific, some teams failed to get the memo and came onto the field with various incorrect driver accounts. I'd think that this should be a line item for the robot inspectors to check.
- YES, these new robot radios take FOREVER to link up! I can't remember how long both the FTA and I just stared at them in order to make them connect (it was an aura thing I suspect). Although, some teams had the switch set to AUTO rather than "bridge", which took even longer to link, it was probably just an inadvertent change of the switch during the competition.
- And I've noticed that there's not any type of training provided for the FTAAs on the FIRST site. You'd think that a position like this would merit at least a one page summary of what the FTAAs are responsible for.

Maybe this is the start.....