[jason701802]

Although we did not have any problems at the portland regional i did notice while watching the matches most of the "field problems" happened to the same teams. whenever they had to do a rematch of a rematch, which happened quite a few times, it was the same teams that had problems in the original matches and the rematches.
someone mentioned that portland was lucky, although we may not have been in the worst shape, we weren't lucky. the high humidity in the valley may have helped in the pits but the field was built on an ice rink and in ice rinks they keep the air dry to reduce condensation. cold and dry, the perfect breeding ground for static. another mistake they made was to turn off the house lights during lunch on Saturday, cooling down the field even more, so it took more than an hour an a half to finish the first four quarterfinal matches.