Einstein Field issues Handled correctly?

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by EricH

What I would do with the Einstein field is to run it in a Week 0 event before putting it into storage. It won't be as pristine, but you get a chance to clean it up before the big show, and you know that it worked (or didn't) when you put it in the trailer. I'd rather have it working and slightly ugly than pretty and not working.

We would all also love Einstein with maybe a few short speeches.

Also, I will state one more thing before I turn off for tonight.
I came into FRC as a freshman. You know what my first memory of a regional was? Not starting play until the afternoon in 09 because the field was bugging out. You know the thing a remember most vividly in 2010 outside of our ludicrous finalist bid and the case of the missing in-game piece? Standing in queue for 45 minutes in VA while we dealt with field issues. 2011? Watching a robot get pulled off because of communication issues the field was experiencing (the station where the team was located had problems all afternoon with a variety of robots). 2012? Almost losing in the semifinals because the robots would lose communication midmatch and we would reboot midgame to stand a chance.

I know chance is a factor in everything, but when I pick up a remote, I don't plan on blowing up my TV. The chance of that happening is severely mitigated by evolved technology.