[MarcD79]

@ kborer22; I agree there were some issues, but we all expect some at Suffield. The red fender was missing the velcro at the bottom. We knew but had no vecro to correct the problem. The ball issue was noticed right away & relayed to FIRST. As the day went on there were less instances of balls under the bridges. I guess the teams recognized this and adjusted their strategy. As for the rest of what you said about shooting from the fenders & balancing act. I will go out on the line & say everybody learned valuable information & will only improve dramatically from this. They also had that issue when we stopped round #3 in Hybrid. When the stop button was pushed, it caused a loss of info for the AP (access point) & had to be corrected. Again, FIRST was advised of this. The reason was that the bridge supports were not removed. They didn't pause the round for fear of the robots being caught up in a continuous Hybrid loop & unable to stop. As always there are things learned that are not thought of during planning each year. Life is a continued lesson & we never stop learning. We just roll with it. I am happy with how yesterday went & am looking forward to Hartford Regional.