@Grant Cox Thanks for your post Grant.
I have a few concerns regarding it.
I understand that there are field techs at worlds who are able to help teams address disconnection issues after the fact. I believe most teams concern is whether, in the case that a disconnection takes place that the team is NOT responsible for, the match will be replayed or not. Cases where a whole alliance disconnects at the same time are almost certainly due to field control (the chance of two robots on the same alliance disconnecting at the same time due to a loose battery or vexnet key is incredibly low). This happened in US Open F1, as well as a high school World final match last season. In neither of these cases was the match replayed. Can you confirm that you are releasing guidance to field techs and referees that matches in which field control causes disconnects at the World Championship will be replayed? I believe this would help to alleviate many teams concerns.
In addition to this, is there a foolproof way of identifying connection issues caused by field control in the VEXU competition, where we will obviously not see two robots disconnect at once? Perhaps you could consider running both teams’ robots off of the same field controller?
Thanks for your consideration,
Lucas