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Originally Posted by superbotman
I have witnessed competitions as a FRC competitor and as a scorekeeper at a regional.
I have spent some time thinking about what they could do to fix/prevent the problems occurring. First, they should have used an electronics system from a field that has been through regionals and has proven to work in a competition.
Then, they should have tested robot connections before matches, possibly going as far as to run a match with the robots sitting on their carts, not on the field, and the sounds turned off so the audience doesn't hear.
If they didn't get solved with the earlier ideas, they should have started changing the field electronics out incrementally starting with the portions that interface with the robot, and prepping a second server to try as a complete overhaul and start the electronics from scratch. Then they should have tested connections during awards and speeches.
Replaying the first two matches was the right thing to do, but when problems persisted, they should have tried to do more, if for no other reason - because this is EINSTEIN.
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This is what sums up my feelings. You could tell that what happened on the field set the tone for the arena, the announcers weren't the same, Dean, Woodie, etc weren't the same and we were just seeing them via a webcast. The fact that nothing was done to remedy the problem is flabbergasting when you are in the most important matches of the season.
118 might be a seperate issue, but you don't have robots just start to lose comms in matches all at once. I could see 1114's issues come back but have robots that performed 100% in their division elims hit Einstein and all but three experience issues you have a MAJOR problem on your hands.