FIRST's statement on Einstein

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Originally Posted by EricH

As I said before, the winners here were the teams that best dealt with the challenge that was nowhere in the rules but enforced by the conditions: maintaining communication with the field. It's a lot tougher than any other part of the competition if stuff isn't working, and should be easier than any other part if stuff is working.

The only problem with this line of thought will be if there really were field problems that favored a specific alliance. In that case then the efforts of the teams to maintain communications were valuable to a point and the rest was dictated by their simple field interaction.

Personally I have already congratulated the victors. The game is just a small part of FIRST. Let's move beyond it.