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Originally Posted by plnyyanks
Those situations, if they occur again, should be brought up to your FTA - those sound like prime candidates for field faults.
Every morning the field staff should run a full test where they check for this sort of thing, so they should be pretty rare.
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We brought the issues up to the FTA at Lake Superior. The one failure at WI occurred in our 2nd quarter final match and it did not affect the outcome. My son is the lead programmer and was driver and he saw the problem. I'm not sure if he mentioned to the FTA or not, but we started in the same place for finals and it was fine.
At Lake Superior, we had to review video, check code, etc. before we found the root cause of the problems. The reversed flappers I think were only problematic on practice day. The stuck flapper required us to review the video before we found the problem and by then it was too late to ask for a fault. (I think we did ask and were told it was too late-- it was a couple matches later).
None of the problems hurt us from winning Lake Superior, nor reaching finals at Wisconsin so we're not grousing about it-- just sharing our own observations.
We now *always* watch the flappers (both left/right) every match as you never know when those 5 points will become critical and unless we notice it live it will be too late to go to the question box. Even then, I'm not sure it will result in a replay as it is unlikely the refs are watching for it and they won't accept video evidence.