What went right?

[Jeremytice]

This year at FLR everything ran very smoothly. There were no field problems and no scoring problems like Ed said. Also the matches were basically on time like scheduled! Great job FIRST!

[Bongle]

With just a few hiccups, the webcasts worked excellantly, though I wish that GLR had one.

The end-of-game ramp climbing is more exciting than last year, since you don't know if the robot can climb, or if the ramps will deploy.

[ChrisH]

The only restart we had at SoCal was due to human error. The announcer started the 3-2-1 while the IFI guy was still on the field and the guy pushing the button didn't notice. Since the robot he was checking out was one of the few with an automode and it went forwards, he left the field rather quickly when the start sounded.

There was a field problem but the IFI guy had not worked out just where it was before he beat a hasty retreat and he signaled us to stop the match.

Since it was the only time we restarted, we forgot to have teams reset their robots. Which resulted in another restart ...

Such a change from previous years when humans had nothing to do with causing restarts.

[Donut]

Relatively few field problems this year, the only time the fog horn sounded was in the second Qualifier at AZ (a robot didn't initialize to move, the same thing happened in the first match so both had to be replayed). Other than those delays, the times went smoothly as well; they were on time for all the alliance selections and ceremonies, and we were actually 15 minutes ahead of schedule on Friday and got an extra long lunch (something I've NEVER seen before, usually we're having to cut 15 minutes out of lunch to make up for lost time).

I also like the new ranking/scoring software, no crashes in the system, ever, plain and simple.