For what it's worth, this happened to us as well. We closed the laptop cover before a practice match and it decided the First touch no longer existed. Luckily, it was end of day and another mentor saw this thread that night. No harm done. And this turned out to be a blessing in disguise because:
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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
This is really quite a serious problem, and FRC should make an update telling teams no to do this.
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Or from the other side, FRC should not tell teams to do this! Between matches 2 and 3 of the finals (NYC regional) over the weekend, there was a field problem. They announced that all 6 teams should shut down the cover of the laptop while they reset the field. Thanks to this experience, we knew not to do that! (I didn't see what they did, but I imagine they shut down the laptop instead.)
If we lost finals because of this problem, we would have been really mad!
So thanks for posting about the problem and saving us!