I think FIRST has handled the situation well so far. FIRST could have easily turned a blind eye and tried to sweep the problem under the rug. What would replaying the 2012 championship matches really solve? Nothing. In my opinion, giving the 12 teams automatic invites to the 2013 Championship as well as waiving their first play registration is enough consolation.
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Originally Posted by Radical Pi
there's a large potential for unintentional FCA as well, which they didn't mention whether or not had been tested. Many teams configure their practice network at the shop with the same SSIDs that the field uses, and if they used a different security key, any phones/tablets/laptops that happened to be active during the games and had been connected to the network at home could have been attempting connections in the background. I actually caught our team's programming laptop trying this once during week 2
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The issue isn't just trying to connect to the network, the issue is trying to connect to the network - while entering an incorrect WPA key:
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During the Post-Championship field testing an attempt was made to connect to one of the team SSIDs set up on the field network, but the WPA key was entered incorrectly. This was observed to sever the communication
between the driver station and robot associated with that SSID. After further testing, a link between failed authentication attempts and a disruption of the communication between a driver station and robot was confirmed, though not every failed authentication attempt resulted in a communication disruption.
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Lets hope that FIRST continues to learn from Einstein 2012 and makes changes to the control system to prevent this from happening at future events.