Intermittent connection on field only

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When a team shows up at an event and the only people welcome to troubleshoot on the competition field are your and your group. When your word is gospel. When it can't be questioned.

When representatives of your organization tell a team over and over to go find problems in their robot, and it's clear that your organization field personnel are comprised of people with relationships to certain teams. Worse it's getting increasingly clear that the field personnel don't have any more resolutions than you as a team.

Exactly how do you think your argument does not lead directly to the feeling that certain teams have an advantage by having an 'in' with your organization?

Marginalizing teams and people with troubleshooting knowledge is entirely incompatible with the mission statements of FIRST.

Furthermore Alan spent a decent portion of this topic harping on essentially the idea that Team 11 doesn't know how to measure a battery or build a properly functional robot. It didn't matter what I wrote. The evidence is there for all to see.

So you tell me. Why should I not interpret the continual actions to silence me and the continual actions to down play our team's ability as a direct example of anything other than a very unlevel playing field?

Just how far is FIRST as an organization willing to go to avoid troubleshooting from the bottom up?

Are you going demand next I be removed as a mentor because I stood up and pointed out that this troubleshooting process is tragically flawed when the tragedy has already claimed it's victims?

How far is FIRST willing to go to protect this failure?

I will not go back in my little box Al. Expending all this effort to put me back in that box only demonstrates that there's more wrong in FIRST than a mere failure to troubleshoot some WiFi and field issues.