Team 548 Einstein Statement

[linuxboy]

Originally Posted by Siri

I certainly don't take T14 to be the only allowable interaction (having talked to enough FTAs in my day), but it is the only guaranteed interaction. While I've never done it on Einstein, I head refs--even busy ones--seem listen to polite students in the box. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a ref that wouldn't listen twice to "I know what's wrong; please let me show you how anyone in the stadium can shut down any robot on this field". As I understand it, the demonstration is rather quick (pull up the network list and show you can send a client authorization). If so, the student could show this directly to the ref for added clout.

Thanks, this is pretty much what I meant to say. While it is totally valid to talk to the other volunteers, the "official" route for raising an issue is in the question box (and after a match with connection issues, FTAs tend to get to the person in the question box just as soon as the head ref in my experience).

EricH, While it seems that going to the head ref could have yielded the same result, I think its just as likely that the ref (along with the FTA) may have chosen to hear the student out and see a demonstration. That's completely my opinion, there's no way of knowing what would have happened.