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Originally Posted by hipsterjr
Our whole allience was getting a "no signal" message and lost control at short times, but the offical just waved us off when confronted.
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Yeah... Same thing happened to us (my previous team) at a regional last year (Chesapeake, I think..) During the match, we lost our radio, and 5 seconds later, one of our alliances lost their radio. I immediately called the IFI guy over who was standing on the side of the field, and he looked at it, I made him aware of the situation, and shouted for a rematch. After the match, I talked to the IFI guy and the head ref, and after 10 minutes of a VERY heated discussion, it was ruled that they were two separate problems that were both of fault of the robot, and the score stood. We only lost by a few points, even though 2 of our bots were out for about half the game. Unfortunately for my team, this was our only loss, caused us to drop from 1 to 3, which caused us to not get our first pick, who we wound up losing to in the finals. But you know what? This is FIRST. Sure, I felt badly and perhaps "ripped off" afterward, but I had no hard feelings. Soon I was over it, and all in all was very happy with the event. It really wasn't anyone's fault, the two robots failed simultaneously, due to an unknown fault. Putting myself in the other alliances shoes, had the problems been due to physical problems on both of our robots, I would feel "ripped off" if they let us replay the match. The same type of thing applies here. Had your robot *not* actually passed inspection, the reason why your sticker wasn't signed, I would feel "ripped off" if I was the other alliance because they let an illegal robot play. Even though your robot *did* pass inspection, the series of event occurred in which it may have led to questioning of this fact. It is what it is, through no fault of anyone.
That was a really long, probably unnecessary story.
Jacob
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