[galewind]

IFI has released a miniature program that allows you to simply control a field from a PC, so you could have two computers set up, one for scoring and for running field 1, and one for running field two, but scoring and rankings can only be done on one PC.

Additionally, the scoring software has a pair of radio buttons labelled "Field 1" and "Field 2". When the scorer says Go, whichever field selected begins autonomous mode. Now, from the results we had yesterday, our scorer was very diligent in remotely switching the Audience display (which was on a separate PC hooked up to a projector) between "Intro"(Who's coming up), "Timer" (A huge timeclock), and "Results" (Duh). Having the timer correctly synched with both fields was a very nice touch.

We only ran one field at a time, but we had fairly constant action and had the field reset crews keep busy on the other field. The only downtime here was that the teams (or after some rounds, refs) couldn't all get there fast enough to start right away. Regardless, after everything was working, things ran pretty smoothly.

Now, I COULD be wrong here, and if so, please correct me, but if you were to use IFI's mini-field controller, it's independent of the scoring server, so you wouldn't be able to control the timer being displayed to the audience (such as the variable time between autonomous mode and when the tele-operated period begins).