What did everyone learn from this weekend's scrimmages?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by TJ2 disc

It took a couple of hours for the officials to actually get the game up and running. They had a problem with the field not "talking" back to them. Whenever they would try to start they would get no response. This new electronics system is causing a lot of problems.

Just as a heads up for everyone, this is in reference to the Scrimmage in CT with the official FIRST field in use.

The problem was something that FIRST had planned for, but not tested fully previous to the event.
We were the guinea pigs for this test in CT so to speak.
The issue was that when a robot did not show up, in hopes of still running a full field at the scrimmage, other robots were put in the missing robot's places.

Come to find out, the system had BIG issues in dealing with robot's not originally assigned to the team numbers/IP Adresses & other electronics connection issues I didn't completely understand. lol

The reason was explained, the 1st match was scrapped, & the subsequent matches were played with either all the robots that were in the Scoring Software present for that particular match, or if they were not there, the rover wheel attached to the missing teams' trailers were used.

End of problems.

There were some typical field breakdowns near the end of the event that would require a restart, but that's nothing out of the ordinary for all those familiar with the IFI field conrol systems of days gone by.

All in all, the 2 hours the field wasn't working "wasted" in CT this weekend was in fact not a waste after all, & proved to be very valuable to the field operators & I don't expect this same problem to be an issue in the future. (knock on wood)