Moving the Rack at the Beginning of the Match??

[Adrien]

Hey. I was watching the live NASA feed from the Florida regional earlier today, and the one thing that bothered me was that the refs were not moving and rotating the rack before each game. Was that just because it was practice day and they didn't bother doing it, or have the rules changed without me knowing?

I looked around on this forum for a while, but couldn't find anything about this.

What's going on?

Thanks,
Adrien

[meatmanek]

I wasn't watching the matches much, but it seemed like they didn't move the rack during practice rounds at St. Louis, either.

[JoshD]

They only rotated it a couple of times on Thursday, but they rotated it before the start of every match on Friday and Saturday.

[Adrien]

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Adrien

[BoyWithCape195]

One thing I noticed during the Florida Webcast today was that the matches were sometimes started while the rack was still swinging around...

[Brandon Holley]

its only thursday....how many times did you see a red climb up on a blue or a blue climb up on a red....practice is practice

im sure that rack will be a movin' come tomorrow

[Adrien]

Yeah, that was pretty funny. It seemed like every other match there was a red on a blue ramp or a blue on a red ramp and each time it happened the MC had to say that tomorrow they will incur penalties for that.

There was actually this one time when they were kind of confused about what to do. I forget exactly what happened, but it was like a red bot deployed its ramp in the blue home zone, but it was greater than 72" and it was partially outside the home zone, and then one red and one blue bot got up on the ramp. Now that's confusing.

[Wedge34]

I wasn't watching the matches much, but it seemed like they didn't move the rack during practice rounds at St. Louis, either.

They started moving it at STL when 3 on 3 in the practice matches. Who are you? Its Wilmo here

[dbell]

at BAE they moved it on Friday and Saturday, not sure about thursday.

[Dave McLaughlin]

At PNW the only moved it sometimes... like the times robots acctully had keepers in posessing for autonoums... y move it if no one is going to try and score...?

-Dave McLaughlin, 1983 Driver

[George A.]

I'm pretty sure it's just cause it was practice. During the actual competitions it's going to be moving plenty. I know in NJ Sky moved it by himself before every match.

That's actually a true testament. If you ever get the chance, try moving that thing...it's immense!

[MrForbes]

its only thursday....how many times did you see a red climb up on a blue or a blue climb up on a red

today we only saw one robot climb on a ramp at the AZ regional

but we did see a robot get picked up by 39's great forklift

[115inventorsam]

I don't think I saw them rotate it everytime at VCU on Saturday when I looked at the webcast. This really caught me off guard, but I'll see if I can watch the Arizona webcast sometime tomorrow.

But yeah, it could be because of whether the teams even had a keeper or not.