AFTERPAD

I own two SteelSeries Stratus controllers and I'm having trouble getting them both to simultaneously be usable within a game on my ipad.

My hope was to be able to play local multiplayer with two people on a single ipad using the two Stratus controllers.  Unfortunately what ends up happening when I try this is that one of the controllers shows the left most red led lit up (meaning "player 1" I assume) and the other controller doesn't show any of the leds lit up at that point.    If I turn off both controllers and then turn on only the one that didn't have the led for player 1 lit up, that one happily connects and the red led for player 1 does light up (which makes me think that controller is fine, say hardware wise). But if I then try to turn on the other controller (the one that had orignially had the first led lit up), that one won't engage and become player 2.  So I can have either one of the controllers involved and working in a game fine, but I can't have them both simultaneously involved in a game. I've tried powering them both off, forcing the ipad to "forget them" as bluetooth devices, using the pairing button on each to pair them fresh with the ipad, rebooting the ipad - no matter what I try I still end up with only one of the pair of Stratus controllers able to be involved in a game at a time.

I do see them both simultaneously show up in the Settings section of the ipad under Bluetooth as "Connected".  So they both seem to happily be able to connect to the ipad simulaneously. But when I fire up a game, only one of the pair seems to be usable.

Here's my setup:
Ipad Mini 2 Wi Fi 64 Gig running IOS 8.4.1
Two SteelSeries Stratus controllers (the regular Stratus type, not the XL)

I've updated the firmware on both controllers using stratus-firmware-update-57_us_windows-vista-7-8-81_3264-bit.exe

The games that I've tried playing include:
Badland
Crimsonland HD

Is there something I'm doing wrong?