Discrepancy at Chesapeake, Israel, Waterloo?

[Dave Flowerday]

This is purely anecdotal, of course, but we also suffered issues on the blue side of the field on practice day at BMR. In one match our robot remained unconnected (No Comm) for the whole match. The FTA advised us that the WPA station may have fat-fingered the WPA key, but we verified this afterwards and the WPA key was correct. In the next match we ran fine, without changing anything on the robot. Even though we ran fine in that match, however, I stood behind the FMS computer and watched the statistics. Before the match started, our robot was connected, then dropped out for 20 seconds or so, then connected (and this repeated 3 times). Evidence that it dropped out included a rapid-flashing signal light on the robot and a rapidly-increasing Lost Packet Count on the FMS computer (in addition to Raul throwing his arms up in the air as the DS said No Comm). This issue did not occur while we were enabled in the match and as far as I know we had no further issues. In both of these cases I believe we were on the blue side of the field.

Another team at BMR (135 I believe) spent several practice matches dead as well, and they triple-checked everything on their end too. Not sure if they were red or blue though.

There's definitely some gremlins lurking in the control system at this time.