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Originally Posted by Kingofl337
I do not believe such a warning was given at Chesapeake, and a pit announcement doesn't count as you could barely hear the PA. If a team received a verbal warning and failed plug it in the next match that is one thing. You have to remember this is a new control system and teams are still learning. On the IFI system we had a dedicated tether port but on the cRio we must use the same port as the wifi bridge, as such if the cable is not pushed in all the way it can pop out of the lan port. Plus you are not only punishing a team this year but an alliance who had no fault in this teams error. Finally the new system links up very slowly compared to the IFI system, teams used to know almost instantly if all is well, not this case here.
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Liz and Pete are both very good FTA's that I've seen in action. I agree with you guys completely on this. The team is responsible for their own robots and connections. This being said, I know many people had trouble connecting to the field in Chesapeake and I think it should be the responsibility of the field crew to let the teams know/give a warning if something was connected wrong or something was not done right. I personally don't know exactly how the field works and when someone doesn't tell me that I'm doing something wrong (and I usually do check after a match if something doesn't work right), I wouldn't know what to change. I think this is a big problem for newer teams who haven't been to as many competitions.
In short, I agree with the FTA's, the teams shouldn't blame everything on the field....it's really not their fault. But I also think that the FTA's should provide feedback to the teams on what went wrong so they do not make that mistake again (thank you Liz

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