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Re: Lessons Learned - The Negative

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Why did this game feature and emphasize camera tracking of non-lit targets when lighting conditions were inconsistent between regionals? Hell, in Atlanta the lighting conditions changed with the number of clouds in the sky and this screwed up robots. Vision Targets should be lit if they're going to be featured.
I'm going to echo this.
If FIRST is going to provide teams with an expensive piece of technology and even more expensive controls designed to work with it, they should ensure that said technology should be not only possible, but plausible to work with at each and every event/venue.
To the best of my knowledge, only a single team scored in autonomous during the entirety of the Championship event (40). A number of teams who had previously used successful tracking code (2056, 1712, 612, etc) were unable to successfully accomplish the feat in the Georgia dome to changing lighting (both from the skylights and the actual arena lights) and the color similarities between the red seats and the pink vision target.
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