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I appreciate the volunteers responding to this thread. It really helps me to put things into perspective when the people behind the event respond.
I apologize for calling FIRST incompetent, as we all know is clearly not the case. However, I still believe that the error by FIRST jeopardized our chances in the finals. I also am disheartened that a FIRST official did not stop by our pit and inform us about the situation, the same way as the volunteers responded to this thread did.
The FIRST organization is growing by leaps and bounds, but I don’t think the infrastructure has kept up with the growth.
It is for this reason that I would like to volunteer and assist in writing and or debugging of the FIRST software in the 2004 competition. I’m sure all of you appreciated the new real time scoring. Obviously the FIRST software team is being stretched to its limits by all the new features.
PS: Great job with the new real time software feature. For those who didn’t see it, when a human player returns to his or her mat a check appears next to their team number on the video wall. White if they got back in time, yellow if they did not and your autonomous will not be starting.
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