[arizonafoxx]

Here are my two cents for what it is worth.

We had around an hour after every field was finished before the Einstein field started. When the finals started on Einstein we had to listen to around 50 minutes of speeches and awards before we got to the first match. Was this really the best use of time in hind sight? Why can't each robot have a practice connection during that down time. NASCAR has practice time on the track, Soccer has warm ups on the field, Football has warm ups on the field before the super bowl. With the amount of time that this field sat in a warehouse how many hours of time were robots connected to the field. Every other field at the event had a previous regional where it was used and the equipment was tested. Second why can't one match be completed before the first awards and Deans speech are presented. If there was a comms problem there would have been around 50 minutes to troubleshoot the problem while Dean and others were speaking. Don't get me wrong I like listening to the speeches to a certain extent but I also think everyone is excited and want to at least see one or two matches right away before the speeches start. Had everyone seen there was a potential problem with this field before there is an issue where they are behind schedule due to Dean's speech or something else they could have realized they needed to cut the speeches shorter to rerun a match or something.

Just my two cents.

I think there will be a valid solution to this by next year that is stated in the manual. At the very least the the teams should have switched sides so that each team had to deal with the same field issues.