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Re: Week 2: So how's that Field Working?
Great Lakes regional field problems galore. The crew is really trying to make things work, but the system just doesn't seem robust enough to handle the situation at hand.
So many problems with the scoring software that they simply gave up and went back to humans keeping track - in close matches where it isn't obvious, when autonomous ends the scorers "report in". The match is put temporarily onhold until they figure out whom won the autonomous period and then they restart the timer announcing which alliance is on offense.
If no one wins the auton period they "randomly" select a color to go on offense.
The score board isn't working most of the time - so you don't really know what the score is unless you somehow keep track in your head.
At the end of the match the head ref announces the penalties (I like that part because then you can figure out which robot/team is doing silly things to get penalized)
All in all - I feel really bad for the good folks that have volunteered to coordinate and run the regional event - it must be difficult dealing with the inconsistent and unreliable programs and systems.
Unfortunately, I think the delays and problems distract from the game - it makes the game choppy and even more difficult to watch/understand.
Last edited by meaubry : 11-03-2006 at 06:09.
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