[s0crates]

I can confidently say that yes, they do interfere with each other. 2 days ago we had a small local competition called BunnyBot, and my team and several others were using the new control system. We were tied for first place for matches won, so of course Murphy's Law strikes and our wrt router suddenly stopped functioning as we began the match. 30 min and 2 forfeited matches later, we had fixed it - for some reason it had decided to stop recognizing its assigned ip; we could not communicate with it. We ended up resetting it and configuring it from scratch. Later in the competition, our wga acted up and refused to connect to our wrt. We had previously tested everything for hours at some senior center with floor space we could borrow, and nothing ever acted up. The only difference between the testing and competing in that competition were the wireless networks being used simultaneously by other teams.

I can totally understand why first is banning wireless comm - with hundreds of teams testing/uploading in the same confined area, there would presumably be a lot more problems. Now that I think of it, (correct me if I'm mistaken) there are only ~22 channels in the 5Gh band required by first, so it appears to be impossible for that many wireless networks to coexist in the same area.

-Jonathan