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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
It's common for teams to blame the field, because one of their motors didn't work (but it worked in the pit!), or if their robot takes off on it's own.
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I agree, and I will add that the opposite is also true: it's common for event staff and volunteers to blame the teams' equipment, because the field worked fine in the previous match. I think both parties assume their side is correct and therefore the other must be broken. The reality is there have been enough root-caused issues with both robots and the field that both should be suspected when an issue occurs. There's plenty of threads in the scorekeeper's forum on usfirst.org that talk about having FMS crash multiple times and having to "reboot the field", and obviously there's been enough issues found with wiring etc. on robots over the years too.