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Re: Pedestal Delays

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Originally Posted by tr6scott View Post
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...-Week-1-Review

Frank Mentions it today in the blog post, it is fixed.
As much as I like and appreciate Frank's post and all the work that went into it, the blog makes no direct mention of pedestal lights at all. More refs, better field reset, and fewer FMS bugs are all great (as are the better foul rules and high goals), but do these account for all the roots causes of pedestal delays? I don't know, and Frank hasn't told me. It seemed that at least some of them were just a failure to hit "End Cycle", which is not a ref-quantity, reset-training, or FMS-quality issue.

More importantly, neither the team update nor the blog prevent a head ref from deciding that a 30 second pedestal delay is not worth a foghorn/replay. Personally, this was my major Week 1 problem. Heck, it doesn't say anything about handling a 2:19 second pedestal delay.

As long as such a devastating failure mode is theoretically possible (which is always--remember the 2011 minibot towers?), I'd like official guidance on how to handle it.
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