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Re: Discrepancy at Chesapeake, Israel, Waterloo?

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Originally Posted by rcflyer620 View Post
I was an FTAA at Chesapeake and can tell you the most of the problems with "dead" robots were operator error. The most common was robots going on the field with the cRio un-plugged from the radio. The FTA had made it clear that once the gates were up you could not correct things like that on the field. We even announced it in the pits to no avail.
Unfortunately I also mentor team 2199 who lost a very good chance at being regional champion due to the robot in Blue-2 de-linking after autonomous. The weird thing is that it exhibited the same behavior in the previous match but in Blue 3 lending credence to the argument that it was a robot problem.
One thing I found that was fairly consistent was the flat black ethernet cable provided in the kit was problematic. teams that had swapped it out for real twisted pair ahd almost no problems with communication.
Yes, it was funny how blue had consistent problems at Chesapeake. So, bad in fact that before the finals two members from team 190 at different times said "I hope you don't end up on the blue alliance". Team 134 ran consistently though qualifications and eliminations never changing their code or robot configuration. We were forced to change to the blue side of the field. On our first finals match, two robot crashed and disabled each other. They disconnected from the field so the FTA claimed it was a power issue. Then on the next match 134 disabled in the middle of the match for no apparent reason and was still connected to the field. All attempts to convince the FTA that field my have been the issue were ignored. In the third match with no changes other than rebooting the robot and swapping driver station loactions with us team 134 ran fine.

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Really? How many robots were not able to compete because of this?
I know of at least 6 times where the FTA took the time to point out the mistake to the team(s) and told the scoring table to disable the robot.
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