Israel Regional: Captain Meeting

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Here is the "No Communication" story:
There are not Breakaway fields for every regional.
Our regional was at week 2.
In the previous Competition weeks there were communcication problems that got worse from regional to regional. The highlight was at Israel Regional.
At day 1 of the competition there were not any special problems. The problems showed up suddenly at the evening of day 1.
At day 2 the problems got worse than ever and it got to a time that we had to wait 3 hours to our game. Because of the problems they didn't know how to solove they switched the system to the Off season system. It didn't work.
As a solution they got the most powerful Router in Israel that even didn't get to the market because, they thought if the problem was not the system, maybe it is the hardware.
This solution didn't work. Next, they were turnning off the electricity in the all arena and turn it on back, they turn cellphones, telephones, wifi, actually everything except of the field off. It helped a little.
As a solutin to the Final they were setting every robot at each game manually - It helped to have a regular game but the waiting between each game was a lot of time (I think 15/30/45 minutes).
Because of this we could "finish" our regional and have winners.

First think they know the problem but the official answer will be at June/July by an examination board of the routers company.
The unofficial answer:
There were 2 types of routers on the robots and the router couldn't communicate with them. (I didn't understand it, but I think they said that after our regional the main router was replaced - the other regionals were okay).

After the Captain's Meeting I was satisfied because, I realized there were true attempts to solove the problem.
This Captain's Meeting is openning the door to a new Israel Regional:
There was an open discussion about every aspects of the regional in addition to the "Communication Problem".
Israel regional is going to be great next year!

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