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The field deffinately was not an official field, but a lot of hard work was put into it. Casters are a need for the goal, we are one of the toughest goal controlling robots, and I noticed difficulty when I was trying to hold onto them. In addition for changes to the goal, the bolts on it are not correct. Where the bars on the bottom are, in between each one are screws. The screws were not flat and caused problems for robots like us, because when you would grab onto the goal you had about an 1" 1/2 less area to shoot for. The screws need to be changed, or you need to warn teams of this. We ended up modifying our arms a bit, however, it was still difficult at times.
I was very surprised that the field stayed as dry as it did.
BE VERY CLEAR ON WHAT YOU WILL DO. Do not call a match and then 30 minutes later have the judges decide to call it a different way, and do not have another match where you allow a different group of people to redo a match.
Make sure you carefully measure out the placement of the tape on the fields. The distance between the goals should be at 32". The goals should also be set up with the flat side inward, not twisted. Make sure the goals are at the same depth too. Don't have one goal 2" farther away from the player station than the other goal.
Overall it was very enjoyable. The changing of the binary is very simple, and would be faster if people would just follow the directions.
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