[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[Kristian Calhoun]

http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2012...-released.html:

Hello Teams,

The Einstein Report, along with important information from Jon Dudas, President of FIRST, has been released and is now available here: http://www3.usfirst.org/node/2426

Frank

[Grim Tuesday]

I would just like to say that FIRST handled this entire situation in exactly the perfect way.

[Akash Rastogi]

Wow some shocking and disappointing things in this report.

[AdamHeard]

Skimmed through, need to thoroughly reread.

As of now, impressed with the thoroughness (as well as their decision to give automatic champs births along with waiving the entry fees for the first event).

Unsure how I feel about some of the descriptions of inappropriate actions.

[steelerborn]

I can't believe what I am reading, who would do that to kids.

[jblay]

I'm quite shocked by this, why would anyone do that?

Really impressed with the way first is handling this though, great move making sure the teams from Einstein get to come back to championship in 2013 and also waiving their first play fee.

[Ernst]

Additionally, Einstein match play suffered from an intentional act of interference.

Does the report specifically say what type of interference took place? I see references to potential RF interference in a few of the paragraphs about 25, but that's about it.

Also, does anyone know if the guilty party stepped forward willingly, accidentally interfered, or anything else?

I can understand why they would want to be vague about who did it, but at the same time I want to know more.

(See Alexa's post below)

In the end, though, I'm impressed with how well they handled the situation.

[dodar]

After reading through this, I believe FIRST should either replay the matches or declare no champions this year and allow all 12 teams free payment for next year's championship.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by ZehP

Does the report specifically say what type of interference took place? I see references to potential RF interference in a few of the paragraphs about 25, but that's about it.

Also, does anyone know if the guilty party stepped forward willingly, accidentally interfered, or anything else?

I can understand why they would want to be vague about who did it, but at the same time I want to know more.

In the end, though, I'm impressed with how well they handled the situation.

I suggest reading the Failed Client Authentication on Einstein section. It explains everything regarding that.

[rocknthehawk]

Just finished reading through.

Wow. I'm impressed by how detailed the entire report is, and at how well FIRST has handled the whole situation.

[SenorZ]

Hmmm. Intentional interference... sounds like FRC is really starting to look like a "varsity" sport.

Aside from Einstein having issues there were tons of radio and cRIO issues at regionals. It really is time for FIRST to look at a new system.

[IKE]

Thank you to the teams and persons and FIRST for the exhaustive effort.

[linuxboy]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Hmmm. Intentional interference... sounds like FRC is really starting to look like a "varsity" sport.

Aside from Einstein having issues there were tons of radio and cRIO issues at regionals. It really is time for FIRST to look at a new system.

I believe Bill mentioned that the NI contract will be up for the 2015 season.

- Oliver

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by dodar

After reading through this, I believe FIRST should either replay the matches or declare no champions this year and allow all 12 teams free payment for next year's championship.

I don't know if you are joking or not, but the ramifications of this would be ugly, at best. The current step was the correct one.

Originally Posted by linuxboy

I believe Bill mentioned that the NI contract will be up for the 2015 season.

- Oliver

Meh, teams have thousands of dollars of control system laying around. If we must, then I suppose we'll go to a new system, but only if we really have to.

Time to read the detailed report,
Sunny G.

[smurfgirl]

Wow, I'm completely shocked by what I read. I can't imagine what drove someone to do that.

I think FIRST handled this the best they could, though.