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Re: Discrepancy at Chesapeake, Israel, Waterloo?
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Originally Posted by petek
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I suggest that a better way to have phrased this would be "Not when non-functional robots are placed on the field 6-7 times."
At each of the four regionals I've worked at this year, the number one problem on the field has been teams forgetting to plug the Ethernet cable back into port 1 of their cRIO.
Throughout practice and early qualification matches we've given teams the chance to correct their error, and given them warnings that we would not continue to let them hold up everyone else if they continue to make this mistake. By Friday afternoon the Head Refs have usually taken the position that if everything else on the field is ready to go and a robot fails to link up because of this error, we would disable the robot and go.
I just cannot fathom how a team, who has put in countless hours and effort to get this far, does not take a checklist with them to queuing and spend the 30 seconds it would take to make sure the Ethernet cable is plugged in correctly, the battery is charged, etc. One of the things FIRST does a pretty good job of teaching is responsibility. Once they sit idle for a match we rarely see a team forget to plug their cRIO in twice. I call that a success.
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I do not believe such a warning was given at Chesapeake, and a pit announcement doesn't count as you could barely hear the PA. If a team received a verbal warning and failed plug it in the next match that is one thing. You have to remember this is a new control system and teams are still learning. On the IFI system we had a dedicated tether port but on the cRio we must use the same port as the wifi bridge, as such if the cable is not pushed in all the way it can pop out of the lan port. Plus you are not only punishing a team this year but an alliance who had no fault in this teams error. Finally the new system links up very slowly compared to the IFI system, teams used to know almost instantly if all is well, not this case here.
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