2014 Waterloo Regional

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Originally Posted by bduddy

I'm not sure that FIRST realizes exactly how much things like working Twitter feeds and live streams matter to making FRC an event people want to, and will, watch.

They obviously don't care. Many people have commented that the current field system is way too complicated and poorly implemented. Streaming of events has been happening since 2003, and 11 years later, it hasn't got much better. There is very obviously internet access at this regional, but for some reason, it doesn't work with the FMS. The method of getting twitter data for matches is total nonsense. There's no reason why FIRST shouldn't make the data available in a way that actually makes sense.

The problem is that the FMS isn't set up in a way that lets FIRST modify it to fix problems easily. The field issues with inconsistent hot goal timing and pedestal delays are still causing multiple replays at each day at each competition for 5 weeks now. The fact that they can't figure out how to fix it in this amount of time is very telling.