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Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird
Towards the end it was said there was a fault in the field anyone know what it was?
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I was down at the field, watching from the side lines and helping were it was needed.
Each tower runs two LED Light Controllers, one for each side of the tower. After Semi-Finals Match 1 were the 2nd and 6th place seeds competed, one of the LED Controllers failed, shutting all of the lights off to the RED tower. It took the field crew a while to figure out a solution, in order to get through the rest of the matches. If you rewatch any of the matches after that, you will notice only one side of the tower working. We were able to get it running with just one controller, but if we plugged the second one in, both sides wouldn't work.
This delay in turn, caused issues with both 842 and 2846. 842, The Falcons, had major air leaking problems, and with the tower delay, the Field crew let them re-pump before the match. 2846, The Coconuts, their robot dropped signal somewhere between the tower issue, and 842 re-pumping, which is why they re-played the match.
In short, a Field Fault led to other robot issues, resulting in a re-play of the semi-finals match.