Einstein 2012

[miriad]

118 did run flawlessly on Newton though, not even the least connection problem.

[NickTosta]

Originally Posted by Gnishi2011

Didn't 118 have a similar problem at CT?

Yeah. Never dropped communication once the whole competition once the whole time. In the semifinals they didnt move.

Originally Posted by miriad

118 did run flawlessly on Newton though, not even the least connection problem.

Yup. Just like CT. Strange, huh?

Oh, and didnt they work perfectly at lone star and the alamo?

[Sean Raia]

The curse persists. Hey, at least it was a clean match.

[JoshSmith]

Originally Posted by hmannn1

Replay Einstein at IRI?

Definitely. No crazy field issues to ruin the competition. I would consider CNC'ing some awards just for this.

Originally Posted by JosephC

I'll have them up on a few hours

These will be interesting to read. Not sure what logging capabilities have with regards to the field management system. I would like to see the field's logs. I wonder if the cameras and QoS subsystem could have a hand in this huge failure.

[lorem3k]

At least there were no comm issues in the last match...

Congratulations 16, 25, and 180!

[Lil' Lavery]

Not a single triple balance on Einstein because half of the robots that would have done were sitting dead. What a joke.

[Kevin Sevcik]

I wasn't watching every match at LSR, but I didn't hear anything from 118 about comms issues there. Also, did anyone else's webcast die? and right before chairman's!

EDIT: That Curie curse is powerful ju-ju if it took down the entire webcast with it in the loss.

[Racer26]

Chairmans was already awarded to 1114 at the start of Einstein

[Christopher149]

Lost the feed on the word 'just'.

[George Nishimura]

Well, I think that last match showed that the better alliance won the Finals. There were comms problems still. Sigh.

Interesting though that, if I'm not mistaken, not a single triple on Einstein. Mainly due to comms, but even in that last match the blue alliance didn't try it.

I'm not sure how they managed to get 16 as their third pick, but congratulations to 180, 25, 16 for becoming World Champions!

Commiserations to 987/233/207 for being finalists, and 2056/1114/4334 and 118/548/2194 for reaching Einstein!

It wasn't exactly free of problems, and it wasn't the spectacle we all were expecting and hoped for, but the Championship Event itself was pretty amazing to watch. I'm glad I sacrificed my revision to watch it.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Chairmans was already awarded to 1114 at the start of Einstein

K. So I wasn't watching then. Nevertheless, the webcast is down when there's still awards to be awarded.

[AmoryG]

Congrats to the champs, you deserved it as much as everyone else did who made it to einstein. But honestly, it's a little sad that I payed more attention to the comments on the webcast than the actual matches themselves. *sigh*

[Joe G.]

987 was dead for part of the last final match

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

K. So I wasn't watching then. Nevertheless, the webcast is down when there's still awards to be awarded.

Was it the NASA channel? Reason being that it stopped at 7pm probably because it was scheduled to end before 7 so nasa reserved a slot until then.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by NickTosta

Also, my programmer just pointed out that the terrible weather makes an excellent metaphor for the issues on einstein.

I can't see electrical storms being all that good for wifi networks.... Have there been any incidents in the past where the field was downed by weather?

Originally Posted by miriad

As a volunteer that works with FMS regularly- it logs everything. Absolutely everything. Any scoring, robot/ds communications (packet logging, I think), and any problems

Do you if there's any way we could get at the Einstein FMS logs? y'know... for science?


And everybody, let's try to keep a cool head. I know it's rough emotionally, and it's easy to get carried away. But that's won't solve anything. We're engineers. We fix problems, not complain about them.