[EricH]

Originally Posted by DjScribbles

I also noticed there were some cases where the pedestal was lit (with no ball on it) when it shouldn't have been. I assumed I just forgot the conditions for it being lit.

You might be correct in the latter. It doesn't go out until somebody possesses the ball--and a smart head ref/FTA combination has probably instructed Field Reset in the strongest of terms that a ball is never to be placed onto a lit pedestal.

If the pedestal doesn't light up after autonomous, double-check that all your auto balls are off of the field. If they are, then the ref may have been asleep (or hit the wrong button and had to undo it, which kind of stinks).

I agree with tanmaker--the ref panels are slow, their connections are slow... (The head ref I worked with this weekend had a number of complaints about the head ref panel, including delays and lack of ability to see what everybody else was putting in.) When I would put in starting balls, it could take several seconds to register after a touch, and sometimes it would unregister randomly.