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Originally Posted by AV_guy007
UTC had some problems to today that need up with 1 rematch and a restart. from what i hear the computer that was running the blue alliance keep crashing and locking up.
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Yes, we had a few random technical problems at UTC today.
At one point the blue side of the field lost power when someone tripped over a cable at the scoring table, so there was a slight delay while the counting computer was rebooted. When it was ready once again, the match was started but the blue IFI equipment hadn't synced up and the blue robots didn't go into autonomous mode properly. We quickly caught on to that and restarted the match.
The problems with the team rankings display in the pits were because of a damaged cable; once fixed, they were correct. Discrepancies between the displayed number of QPs for certain teams and how many QPs they themselves thought they had were not because of faulty software; the data was incorrectly entered into the system and has since been fixed.
Also, the right-side blue corner goal started counting up randomly a few times, either because of debris on the illuminated sheet or because the screen was bent out of shape. Note, however, that all the official end-of-match goal counts are coming from people at each goal with clickers. The automatic system has been used for displaying the real-time scores only.
Since the same problems weren't happening more than once or twice each, and since most of them dealt with the synchronization of the software and hardware of three different companies (National Instruments, IFI and Hatch), I'm willing at this point to chalk the field problems up to circumstance and congratulate those three companies on a job well done.