[demosthenes2k8]

Sadly, this happened a LOT on our team this year. Software received the robot Thursday before ship, and had what little time remained to get the code working on it. It worked (mostly) for unveiling, but mechanical kept changing how things were going to work throughout build season.

And then came competition-GSR.

One particular example of software getting unfairly blamed was when we went to go into a practice match, with a robot that we had JUST been running in the pit, and spent all ten minutes trying to get communications. After we left without getting anything done, the mechanical lead looked like he was ready to kill the software lead (me). I found out after I left for lunch that they had unplugged the camera and plugged the special practice gaming adapter into its port. Not software, they shouldn't even have been touching that wire!

I agree that software gets blamed because software doesn't really have anything concrete to show, unlike the other subteams. However, I think that a bit more mutual respect would be a good idea. It's rather annoying to have subteams blaming each other for everything instead of working, and always assuming that it's never their fault. Especially when it IS their fault that software doesn't get the robot until really late.