[JBotAlan]

I'm sure FIRST knows of our woes. We are all irritated by the same plague of problems, but I imagine that the best we can do is suck it up.

I've seen some oddness when sleeping the DS, so I would not suggest doing that. However, figuring that it is about a 2-minute cold boot time, it should be okay to turn off the DS until the match before you is over. Then, right when the buzzer goes off, turn on the DS. In most cases, you should be alright.

As for the radio slowness, the best I've seen is to power on the 'bot and leave it alone. I did see a lot of teams stationary for the entire match with a fast-flashing RSL. That would not make me happy.

Which leads me to another point. Has anyone else noticed a bug in the RSL code? About 40 percent of the 'bots I saw (anecdotally, not empirically) would be acting just fine, but fast-flashing the light. Isn't it supposed to be "long on, flicker off, long on, flicker off" during teleop?

Overall, considering how complex the system is, we are lucky it works as well as it does. I question some of the decisions made, but many engineers (who have been engineering since before I was born) have poked at the intricacies of this system, I'm sure.

I am also sure things are going to get a lot better. This morning, we had a delay of several minutes between matches. Towards the end of the day, however, things were running fairly smoothly. Stuff happens every year. There's a lot to work out.

Now, did you have fun?