Einstein 2012

[Kevin Sevcik]

I wasn't watching every match at LSR, but I didn't hear anything from 118 about comms issues there. Also, did anyone else's webcast die? and right before chairman's!

EDIT: That Curie curse is powerful ju-ju if it took down the entire webcast with it in the loss.

[Racer26]

Chairmans was already awarded to 1114 at the start of Einstein

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

Chairmans was already awarded to 1114 at the start of Einstein

K. So I wasn't watching then. Nevertheless, the webcast is down when there's still awards to be awarded.

[Joe G.]

987 was dead for part of the last final match

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

K. So I wasn't watching then. Nevertheless, the webcast is down when there's still awards to be awarded.

Was it the NASA channel? Reason being that it stopped at 7pm probably because it was scheduled to end before 7 so nasa reserved a slot until then.

[JohnFogarty]

I sat there during Gali's alliance selections going.
25, 180, & 16
THAT'S IT!
THAT'S MY FAVORITE ALLIANCE.
They went all they way too!

[Racer26]

I think FIRST will lose the respect of an awful lot of people if they don't do something to answer to the obvious problems on their highest stage.

[Normtheman]

I was at Einstein and we may have found a reason for the comm problems once a bot hit the red alliance driver station red lost comm.

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by Normtheman

I was at Einstein and we may have found a reason for the comm problems once a bot hit the red alliance driver station red lost comm.

Loose ethernet?

[Tristan Lall]

What are the chances FIRST will refrain from tearing down the Einstein field until such time as they can run a few simulated matches on it? I'd say there's no time like the present to do some failure analysis, and I suspect there's no shortage of teams that would volunteer their robots for the task.

Once the field is gone, the evidence is gone (or at best, tainted), and it will be that much harder to convince people of the root cause.

(Of course, my congratulations to the winners and all of the runners-up.)

[JackN]

Congrats to 25 on joining the two-time champions club. Congrats to 180 and 16 for finally getting a championship victory.

It is infuriating that all of the communications issues throughout eliminations ruined everything and overshadows their well-deserved victory. I thought going through divisional finals 987, 233, and 207 played the best out of anyone

[Christopher149]

Lost the feed on the word 'just'.

[Racer26]

I'm completely livid.

FIRST should in no way allow this to stand. They should have moved to Galileo field after the first replay.

12 teams come through their respective divisional eliminations without a single comms issue, and come to Einstein, only to have 7 of the 8 matches have at least one robot sit dead for a non-trivial length of time?

Its absolutely unacceptable.

Woodie and Dean were obviously quite upset about it, judging by their faces on the webcast.

The only acceptable way to right this wrong now, that I can think of, is to crown ALL TWELVE teams 2012 Champions.

[sailer99]

Does anyone know the firmware on the different robots radios. At GTR West everyone with firmware 1.4 was downgraded to 1.2.1 because of massive connection issues during practice matches.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

They should have moved to Galileo field after the first replay.

Just wondering but why Galileo? I've seen a few people mention that field as an alternative.