[moderated]: NASA/VCU field problems

[Stephen P]

After the first day of competition here at VCU, I am a bit dissapointed with the amount of problems that have plagued the scoring system and field system in general. For a while, the blue alliance station seemed to be malfuctioning. During one of our matches, our robot's autonomous was completely out of wack and our bot was uncontrollable during remote control. This same problem happened to (to my knowledge) at least two other teams on the blue alliance, and probably more. We, along with another team, tried to talk to the technical guy about the problem but they kind of just shrugged us off and blamed the problem on us. Shortly thereafter, they fixed the field and had no re-do's of the botched matches.
Throughout the day I believe the scoring sensors were not working properly in at least the center goals; on at least one of our matches, our alliance scored six in the center during autonomous and the system registered that we had won autonomous; however we still did not receive the ten point bonus, and in all our score was drastically undercalculated. Our alliance complained but was shrugged away in a similiar manner.
I believe the scoring problems swayed the game in favor of the red alliances; it seemed as though the large majority of the games were won by red (anyone have statistics?).
I know that this is a very complex game, but I really wish they had worked the bugs out of it before the competition.
Is anyone else experiencing similiar frustration?

edit: This should remain a seperate thread from the original VCU thread since it is specifically about the field problems.