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Originally Posted by BRAVESaj25bd8

Is anyone watching the NJ webcast and thinks the music is STILL pretty bad? This really doesn't seem like FIRST music. Maybe it's just me?

The DJ was playing awesome music he was playing all different genres, most if not all songs were those that were recently put out. His custom mixing skills need work nevertheless played great music...

I guess you guys hear differently on the webcast compared to in person He played nothing but up beat stuff

Velcro doesn't help unless you have the strong stuff!!! There was only really one team that had velcro and it still didn't make much of a difference. I know that opponents had to dive for their controllers counteless times in 3 days whether it was caused by one team or select teams I can't tell you... The ruling isn't harsh but you have all the time and place to test your auton mode even if its just in the pit on chocks hooked up to a tether... Thats why some if not all regionals are getting practice fields so that you can test everything before getting on the field. To prevent causing un-neccessary damage. It's the teams responsibility to test everything. Thats also why we run 2 practice matches per match on thursday so that you can find the bugs and fix them. If the ref's see and note your bugs on thursday and watch for them on competition day and still see them then the team should be penalized b/c that just means the team did nothing to correct it since it was first noticed and when they were first warned. Yea there's alot going on but whats more important, losing a match over penalty points b/c you decided to just go with what you have anyway or note your bugs and find a way to correct them in the time you have to build, ship, test, practice and compete with your robot. It's as even simple as just taking the auton code completely out for reviewing and let the robot sit there for 15 secs rather then attempting an untested auton mode and risking a team / alliance dq.