[paulamayfour]

I think one of the most frustrating parts of the regonal was that the officials would never expalin what exactly went wrong. There were some matches that went on without problems, but then there would be an error and when we asked what it was it couldnt be explained to us. Also in matches where something clearly went wrong, like robots not being able to move from the begining of the match, the match was played all the way through then replayed. They let it finish which took more time and caused more confusion and frustration. Also when they re picked alliances it took about a half an hour to announce the re-picking. Many alliances had already stratigised and the first matches had already been called for cuing. Alliance pairings is such an important aspect of the competition and they should be checked over before doing the picking. They were not done right and it was fair that they were redone, but the problem should not have come up in the first place.

I understand it was a new system, and that there could be bugs in it, but teams can not do anything to fix the problem. The problems were also talked about as being what the world is like, however teams could not fix this problem and could not have prevented it. It was the responsability of the regional to make sure systems worked and putting it to the system alone and the way problems were handled made this in my opinion a very poorly run regoinal.