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As previous people have pointed out, FIRST is a massive organization with extremely bright people, and a decent amount of money and sponsors. They are capable of holding an incredible number of competitions and organizing the massive championship event in St. Louis, and other fantastic accomplishments, but they can't seem to test the FMS, the magical closed source networking nightmare of complexity.

If FIRST had set up a field, and played 10 matches with boxes on wheels robots, they would have noticed a significant number, if not all, of these problems. If FIRST doesn't have the resources to do this (which would be surprising...), then they need to be transparent about it. Letting the FRC community know would only help. They still haven't acknowledged any of the FMS issues.