[Nate Smith]

I'm not personally involved with FTC right now, so these are just my random thoughts...

-I like the idea of pre-syncing to a personal bluetooth source, rather than having to reconnect to the field system, and then back to the personal system after the match, back and forth for the entire event.

-I do agree with the posts here, however, in regards to timing to ensure that everyone starts and ends at the same time.

I propose these modifications to the plan. I don't know how feasible this would be at this point, however, as it requires a modification to FMS.
1. Set up a system similar to how the FRC FMS is used - provide an ethernet cable for each team to connect to at the FTC field.
2. Each team's FMS would sync to a "master" system that FIRST was running.
3. This "master" FMS would communicate with each team's system to start and stop as needed. If necessary, the system could also perform a self-test of sorts when first synced, to prevent any modifications to the team FMS from taking place.