[Lil' Lavery]

The information contained in the report and the information omitted from the report was selected for a reason. Attempting to read between the lines will only grant speculative conclusions. Wild speculation is exactly what this report was attempting to mitigate.

The "Root Cause Conclusions" table on page 20 of the report lists fifteen instances of command response failures. Six of those instances have nothing to do with the "Failed Client Authentication" issue. Only one of the fifteen instances is "confirmed" to be because of the "Failed Client Authentication" issue. Eight matches were ran on Einstein, each with six teams participating. That's 48 potential opportunities for command response failures. Setting aside the FCA issue, 12.5-14.6% (depending on 2056's root cause in SF2-1R) of the opportunities still manifested command response failures.

Regardless of whether or not the root cause was the fault of the field or the team, a system with a 12.5% failure rate among the elite participants at the end of the season is simply not acceptable. This report was not about the practice day at an early season regional, but the finals of the championship event. A vast majority of this report is not focused on the Failed Client Authentication issue, but the numerous other potential points of failure in the system both on the robot and FMS sides of the equation. I'm glad FIRST is taking steps to try and improve this system and remedy the issues highlighted in this report, and this is far more important to me than debating the motives and proper punishment of an individual.