[Nuttyman54]

I would like to preface this post with the fact that I am NOT a programmer, and know very little about how the control system works.

I've noticed a lot of people in this thread mentioning FIRST's failed attempts at a "1.0 release". From my observations, a lot of these problems (Hatch, Banebots, Radio issues) appear as such due to insufficient testing time. Had the Banebots been tested under load (like Dr. Joe did), had the radio issue been discovered earlier, etc, I'm sure the teams would have never known there was an issue, because FIRST and the vendors would have fixed them ahead of time.

I'm hoping that the reason for the early announcement (as compared to previous announcements of changes in the KOP) is so that they will have sufficient time to test the system under competition conditions, hopefully with the aid of teams.

I will reserve my judgment of the new system until I have seen it in action, or at least seen more information. Speculation at this stage is nigh useless.