ARENA Fault

[Mark McLeod]

We had the entire Blue side dead for Teleop in an early Quals match.
I'm sure everyone in the stands "knows" it was a field fault.

Of course one robot had a 5v battery, another had a 0 volt Classmate, and the third was pinned under a partner and didn't want to rip it's camera off trying to get out from under.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Of course one robot had a 5v battery, another had a 0 volt Classmate, and the third was pinned under a partner and didn't want to rip it's camera off trying to get out from under.

It seems that Classmate battery issues are definitely a contributing factor to the feeling that the field doesn't work very well. I wish someone could explain to me why FIRST is torturing themselves by not providing a $5 power strip at each alliance station and in turn suffering from the massive number of reported issues that are related to Classmate batteries. It seems like that rule isn't doing anyone any good and is just making all the perceived problems appear worse than they are. I guess I don't have much sympathy for FIRST if they're getting blamed for field faults when the issue is really a low battery when they could so easily solve that particular problem.