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Re: Delaware Regional Pilot Vex Tournamnent

First off, congrats to the plannning committee for pulling off one of the best events I've ever been to. JFLL, FLL, and FVC (over 130 teams total) under one roof at the same time - amazing. Lou Rosanio, John Larock, Joe Perrotto, MOE 365, and a host of volunteers should all be very proud of the outcome.

As for the radio glitches that occured in the morning, we now know this:
Three of the competition crystals did not function correctly and were tested after the competition. Testing indicates that one was mislabeled at the factory and two were "dead". By lunch time at the competition, those crystals were identified and removed from the mix and a pre-match crystal check was instituted. To the best of everyone's knowledge this did affect a robot in each of three matches. Local event volunteers and FIRST FVC staff worked together throughout the day solving problems effectively.

In the cases a robots running after match shutoff, etc. there is no definitive answer at this point, but software/code could be a culprit since multiple hardware configurations yielded the same issues.

We have not confirmed that untethered practicing robots interefered with the field and it's highly unlikely this could occur. The crystals that were used on the competition field are not currently available to the public for purchase. Any crystal a team could have used in the pit area couldn't have matched one on the field. The reason that practicing/pit area robots had to be on tether was to keep them from interfering with one another, the field itself was not of concern.

It's important to note that the number of glitches was far outweighed by incredible competition and gracious professionalism on the part of the FVC teams. All of the teams affected by these anomolies made it to the elimiation rounds and two of them were in the finals. We were all glad to see that none of these technical issues had a major negative impact. For a pilot season, FVC is really an exciting experience and the technical lessons learned in Delaware will certainly make the next FVC events that much better.
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