Experiences at BattleCry 6

[akshar]

I am starting this thread so everyone can discuss their experiences at BattleCry 6.
Disclaimer: I respect FIRST, the Referees, and all the people it takes to put together the competitions. this post is one where feelings are not held back.

I'm from team 1568, during the 8th finals, we were teamed with 1350 (thank you), and 1687(nice job!). we lost our first match fair and square. the second match however, we were blue alliance station 2, for autonomous our control was disabled. Now all scouts will tell you that we had a pretty flawless autonomous. well anyway, we yelled for a ref, but they were occupied with the match, when one finally did come it was to late, 2 minutes of controlled play had began and control had been given. At the end of the match we tried talking to the refs, but they told us to go the the event manager on the blue side, which we (1350 and 1568) did. We were pretty much told that the issue had been resolved 2 hrs before. The issue was something was wrong on the blue side and thats why all the matches were being replayed, this issue also cost us a match if not more on Friday. This practically made us look like liars and we were promised a rematch only if the same thing happened again. we went to ken, during the quarterfinals, it was not to get a rematch but to tell him of what had happened, we were pretty much treated w/o respect by certain people. Not winning was not an issue anymore. Ken promised to look into it and sure enough the issue arose again, there were at least 3 more rematches in the quarterfinals after we had told everyone that there was a problem on the blue side.

does anyone know what was wrong on the blue side?
by the way, great job to team 40 and their alliance...