[Mark Pettit]

I hope that FIRST gets a handle on this stuff before the rest of the season. That's terrible that we've all struggled to make our robots and teams ready to compete only to be stymied by blunders like these.
We pointed out an issue with the ranking system early Friday morning. The errors were in our (991's) favor. FIRST thanked us for our gracious professionalism and informed us that when scores/rankings are posted they are final.
There were apparently also issues with the competition control system that we all plug in to. The buzzer to end a match came on about 5 seconds into RC mode in one of our matches and that, oddly, coincided with disablement of our robot. The IFI rep told us that our backup battery hit the controller reset button. We jiggled it around and it didn't look to us like that was possible, but like all FIRST judgements, that was final (it is what it is).
Regardless of the problems with the sanctioning body, The AZ Regional Planning Committee put on a wonderful show and we all had a blast playing the game!