Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

I saw on the webcast that the human loading zone, the part where both feet much be touching, is a large square, yet at VCU last week it was a small triangle the size of the one the robots must be on. Is this a last minute design change, or is the setup at Flordia/VCU illegal?

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

The human player loading zone is supposed to be a triangle a little larger than the trianglular area of the Robot Loading zone.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

So the one at Florida is illegal then, it's a large rectangle.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

I saw that in the webcast this morning too. I couldn't get a screen capture to work right, for some reason--otherwise I would have posted and made the same inquiry.

For reference, it appears to be a 4 ft. square taped on the ground, at the four locations, instead of a triangle.

Actually, I think that this is a better idea, as safety goes; it's counterproductive for the human player to have to watch his feet when he's trying to safely load a robot, to avoid penalties incurred by stepping out. That doesn't make it strictly legal, but it is understandable. Perhaps the head referees' teleconference yielded this suggestion?

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

This was changed between week 1 and 2, and is the same way at the UTC regional in CT fyi.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

It makes sense too. Rob and I were discussing it and he mentioned how much safer and less of a hassle a rectangle is than a triangle. Hopefully less penalties and complaints will occur.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

Hmmm i will have to inquire about that tommorow, i acutally never noticed that we did that tapiing at about 1030 that night so we were all a little tired, i will look into it tommorow thanks guys

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

It is the same at UTC like Elgin said. It was changed to make the HP safer.

BE AWARE THAT YOU NOW MUST HAVE BOTH FEET COMPLETELY IN THE BOX, NOT ANY PART OF BOTH FEET TOUCHING

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

yes this is true i just called the field manager and we talked about it. Its safer and you do have to have both feet in the box

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

Despite the boxes being larger I noticed during the practice a lot of HP's completely missing the box when they were placing tetras. Better talk to your HP's or there are gonna be a lot of penalties.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

Yes i talked about that today after practice witht he field supervisor and we are touching on that tommorow during the drivers meeting

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

That is correct. This is a rules change which was decided upon between the head referee and the game design comittee, in the interest of safety for the human player. The human player loading zone is now a 48 inch square. This information is detailed in Team Update #15, along with other rules changes deemed necessary after the first weekend of competition.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

Yep, they let us know this morning (I'm currently at the competition) that because of all the penalties caused by the small player zone, its been enlarged to the big square. Its legal.

Re: Florida Regional Human Zone Set-Up - Is it correct?
 

The triangle was suppost to be a square, but got changed in communication to a triangle. It was corrected between week 1 and 2.


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