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Originally Posted by efoote868
I didn't like the no-bonus autonomous.
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Autonomous was huge this year. What do you mean by "no bonus"?
Things negative about this year:
Suspension probably should have been worth more points if the GDC wanted us to do it. The single extra point it's worth convinces me that they wanted us to analyze and determine that suspension indeed wasn't worth it. It would have been cool to see though.
There simply should not have been so many field connection issues. My team shouldn't have to bring their unplugged router with them to a match in order to prove that the robot wasn't trying to connect to it. (Apparently, despite the custom encryption, field crews at WPI claimed my team's robot was connected to our own router in the pits, which remained unplugged throughout the event) It seemed like every other match there was that one, two, or three robots that took several minutes to get to work, and the fact that more than one match was decided for my team by whether or not field personnel felt like spending the 10 minutes it takes to make a robot work or not is stupid. One match we didn't move. Another match, our partner that we desperately needed to try and upset 1124 in CT quals didn't move and they made them take the robot off the field (side note: i wish they let us move that robot in front of the opponent's goal instead of walking it off). If you're paying ~$500 a match, this kind of thing isn't acceptable.
To drive home my point... it happened on Einstein! 294's sync issues, while it made me hear more of Dave Verbugge's awesome speech, are something that just shouldn't happen.
The Safety Award should be awarded to the safest teams, not the most obnoxious. Just imagine if the GP award was given out the way the Safety award is...
Some method of ensuring judges give each team a minimum amount of time to talk to them would be nice. Say, 10 minutes per team Friday morning? Judges do go by every team's pit, but 90 seconds isn't enough to decide whether or not a team should get an award. Not that I'm bitter...