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Originally Posted by Ed Sparks
This match will haunt me forever ...........
The data scanner confirmed that the radio link was good at that time. I also reported that none of the robots on Red left the wall. At that point I backed out of the conversation because, unfortunately, my team was involved and I felt it would be improper to say anything else. The alliance captain appealed to the head ref and she decided to re-play the match.
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I guess I'm confused, keep in mind in my volunteering history, I've only done explaining for what happens never really experienced it. In the past if there were no packets lost then matches haven't been replayed. If there was, then its a sure fire way to know that there was a field issue, or is there something else that people go by? I also thought it was strange to order a replay of match 2 after the play of match 3, they had a lot of time in between there to decide, I thought if a decision had been made it probably should have been made before the start of match 3. That can greatly change a teams strategy, especially if there are mechanical troubles, in relation to timeouts or replacements.
All weekend long we struggled with our autonomous mode not running on the field, we would bench test it tethered and every single time it operated perfectly, on the practice fields in the pits, or waiting for our next matches. Yet it seemed when we make it to the field, occasionally it would run and occasionally it wouldn't. The bot for some reason seemed not to go into autonomous mode on multiple occasions, but when the students asked what happened they were told it was not a field error because there were no packets lost. Why the change, in theory.. or is it just because it affected an entire alliance?