Great Lakes Regional 08

[KTorak]

Originally Posted by Btower

As I understand it, an arena controller was replaced on Friday, then on Saturday the red alliance data would not advance from the semi's to the finals in the scoring computer, they ran the first match of the finals with o,o,o as the red alliance, but the scores were erased when they tried to post 'em up. Thus they had to rerun the first match.

Oddly enough, well maybe not so odd, but the field has history. At the rookie regional at Kettering two arena controllers were fried.

As usual the next week at Detroit, it ran flawlessly. Then at WMR strange days occur again. (Same field kit at all 3)

I've been field manager at both Detroit and Great Lakes for the past 4-5 years, usually Great Lakes comes first and we have have a number of issues , then at Detroit, we run without issues with the same field kit. In the past I've put the cause down to infant mortality / debug failures. This year, with the order of the regionals mixed up, I'm beginning to think it might be related to power quality. The difference is that at detroit we run lights, pit power, sound system etc... off generators, but the field controllers are run off house power. At Great Lakes everything comes off house power, the arena controllers just might be a little sensitive to power fluctuations.

Just a guess. See ya at GLR.

That makes a lot of sense though. I guess we'll see what happens. Usually GLR doesn't have too many issues besides working out little things on Thursday.