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Originally Posted by AndrewMorrison
This year was a big turn around for team 229.
On behalf of our team I would like to thank 1241 and 1626 for being amazing alliance partners. We would love to run with you guys again in the future, we had a blast.
This entire weekend it seemed like the only thing that mattered to the referees, FTA, and scoring table was staying on time.
They refused (until the very end) to believe that there could be anything wrong with the field. They refused to let 1241 link with the field in one match, and in the same match when the field stopped working with 2-3 seconds left they still almost said that the scores would stand(even though human players kept going because the buzzer never went off). We actually took the rule book to them, and showed them the rule about replaying the match whenever there was a field error. It still took them a 10 minute conference and the stands to start chanting "re-do, re-do" before they finally agreed.
We all know what happened in week one, and all the field errors that went on then, but they completely disregarded that this could even be a possibility. Now I can understand that some problems were because of a jostled wire or some code issue, but they blamed absolutely everything on the teams. It wasn't until the finals when they started to truly acknowledge field problems. After quite a bit of complaints.
Now this is all after the competition has ended, but who knows how many problems actually happened during qualifications? the rankings could have changed, and the outcome could have been completely different. (absolutely no disrespect to the winning alliance, you had a phenomenal alliance).
Speaking for my team, we were all very disappointed in how the field was ran.
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I definitely agree with Andrew Morrison on the points he has made.
I hope these issues are solved as soon as possible.
On behalf of Theory6, Team 1241, i would also
like to thank team 229 (division by zero) and team 1626 (falcon robotics) for being our alliance partners and becoming semi finalists! We would love to work with you in the future. Good Luck to both teams at Chesapeake!
At the same time, I would like to thank all volunteers and organizers who made this regional amazing! John Darr and Karthik were a truely amazing team that kept this regional thrilling all weekend!
Congratulations to Teams 188, 1507 and 174 on their regional win! The semi finals between ours and your alliance were intense and very competitive!
I would also like to thank the programmers from Team 1511 Rolling Thunder for helping us with LabView problems we were facing. Congratulations to team 1511 on the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship and Regional Finalist Awards!
Teams Attending the Greater Toronto Regional, See you there!