Camera Issues -- So close yet so far.

[Dave Scheck]

Let me preface this by saying -
To team 66 (and to others that attempted vision): Congratulations on your successes and near successes. Using the vision system this year was a huge leap of faith and to get it to work is commendable.

Originally Posted by Will Hanashiro

What I do not understand is why some people are blaming team 66 for this incident.

I don't think that anyone is blaming them. I think that people are just pointing out that the environment was what it was and that it should have been taken into account.

Why is it their fault that the camera locked onto the button of a person on the sidelines???

In all honesty, there was no reason that the camera should have been looking 5 feet off the ground for a vision tetra.
As has been mentioned above, there are ways that this could've been avoided.

Had FIRST kept their lighting the same from regional to reagional, day to day, even hour to hour, then team 66 would not have had to program it so that the camera picked up all shades of green.

That's a really absurd statement. Did you happen to notice that the entire roof of the Georgia Dome was blacked out? That probably cost them a pretty penny so that they could at least give teams that were using the vision system a fighting chance. That seems like a lot of money so that a few could show their stuff.

Granted the lighting was very different between the practice field and the dome, which was different from the regionals, but FIRST at least tried to help by giving us calibration values.

all I can say is that things just arent fair sometimes.

Really? I thought that they were perfectly fair. Each team had the same opportunity to get the vision system to work. I didn't see one team having an advantage over another at all.