[Dave Flowerday]

For organizers, keep in mind that some teams may not even own the programming kit or EasyC, and therefore will have no way of upgrading their robots before arriving at the competition.

Also be aware that flashing new master code onto the robot will erase the user program. I think we had some trouble with this in Chicago, where teams had to get their master code upgraded but then did not have a copy of their code with them to re-download.

Richard, did someone tell you that the older master code will prevent your robot from working with the field? That seems unlikely given the way the Vex robots work - I assumed the newer master code was more related to correct operation of autonomous mode.