I am from 917X Aviation Nerds, based in Washington. We were just in a competition in Delta, BC, Canada (Double-Barreled Dust Up Space Cowboy Rodeo) where we lost Semi Finals due to an issue with the Battery. We had a voltage issue in the battery, where despite showing 4 green lights at the start of the match, mid match we lost connection with the bot as it showed 3 green lights and one red, a common error with the VEX batteries. This issue was not ruled as a replay, punishing us for a problem with VEX and not us. We believe that this should be a ruling that is changed in the rulebook, ensuring no other team is punished unjustly
How is this a reason for a replay? It is a failure of your robot, not the field control system. It is also questionable that to blame VEX, all batteries will fail. You do not say how old the battery was.
As it was not a field control system, no replay is allowed in this case. It is not likely the Game Manual will ever allow replay for a battery failure.
How can you say this is a failure of the robot when a new battery, bought just about a week before the competition fails to provide us power to our bot. The battery had shown 4 bars, but ended by showing us 3 green and one red, a common problem with the batteries. It is not a problem with our robot that a brand new battery did not function properly. I am not blaming vex for this issue, but rather urging them to allow this as a cause for replay
Fair question, let’s break it down - teams bring in the robots to competition, batteries included. Event Partner provides the fields and control system to run the tournament. A replay is for field control system failures, fields that are improperly set up, and misapplication of rules. Robot failures, for example a battery clip breaking and battery ends up unplugging, so robot has no power is not cause for replay.
I am glad to know the batteries are a week old, so must likely under warrantee - email [email protected]
GDC (Game Design Committee) decides what is in the Game Manual.
It seemed to be the error in the following picture. Rather than flashing, it was simply displaying this for a large period of time. Looking back into this website you have provided, I myself am now confused regarding this problem:
