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Originally Posted by Team23pitboss
I have already watched multiple robots spin out mid-match while watching the Florida and Texas streams.
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I highly doubt you can diagnose an FMS problem via a webcast. I know of only a handful of people that are even remotely qualified to do that - and they are called FTA's. I presume you are not one, thus I'm not sure how a robot dying on a field (Im guessing thats what you mean by "spin out") at their very first event can be assumed to be an FMS fault. Many teams have not finalized or fixed or even know if their code really works yet.
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Originally Posted by Team23pitboss
If you don't already know Team 23's season was brought to an end by an FMS malfunction in the quarter-finals last season and I have been horrified of a repeat of this ever since.
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What evidence do you have of this? I hate to dredge it up, but the Einstein report showed that the majority of the issues were actually team faults. I highly suggest you go back and read it if you haven't already. It will give you some great insights into things that your team should not do if you want to have a successful fully running on field season.
Should there have been better diagnostics? sure. But its not as simple as saying "the FMS ended our season." Maybe in your case it was one of the rare instances it was true... but I don't see how we can/should panic over seeing a couple of dead robots on a webcast.