[AnimatorSarah]

I am the driver for team #378.
I feel that these events occured for a number of reasons.
1:
The officials incorrectly assumed since team #835 was the original #2 seed, that they would not defer to team #378 to play every match of the finals. Therefore, when they set up the positions for the second of the two matches, they had team #835 on the display instead of #378. The refs proceeded to switch not only the driver's positions, and the human player positions, but the radio frequencies as well. This caused the human players to be located in the wrong positions. This affected my teams autonomous mode, team #85's autonomous mode ran instead of team #378.
2:
I personally witnessed a FIRST official step on the pressure mat, causing the autonomous modes to be corrupted. However, at the time, I did not realize the threat this posed to the outcome of the match. Also, with the heat of the competition, I felt it better to play out the match rather than abandon my controls and pusue the attention of the referees.

I regret that there is a great deal of controversy about this match, but I feel that Playing the second match with all the factors being equal was the right thing to do.

Jacob Hahn
Driver, Team #378