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Originally Posted by Mr V
This was an issue known to FIRST before week one and was something that the PNW FTAs discussed when they and I were repacking the road cases for this season. So the FTA at your event should have informed the teams at the driver's meeting.
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If that is the case then I am really disappointed in FIRST as well as the event staff. It would have been really easy to figure that out if we had been informed through an Email blast or a blog post. Or if our FTA had any idea. He sent our code out to New Hampshire to have FIRST look it over and they still never told us about this. So if it was a known issue and not shared with the greater community, the fairness of week 1 has been stripped away as some teams sat on the field wondering why their controls didn't function like they did back home.
Also we burned hours of practice time solving a problem that was already solved? How does that seem fair? Sure my team figured it out, but at what cost? It took a long time to regain confidence in our control system after a few inexplicable failures when connected to the field. For all we know that could be what caused us to perform worse than we have in five years.