Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

I remember the mass chaos that happened last year at the Newton Feild Finals when Hot's cable snapped and they came crashing down from 10 feet up. I don't think there was a problem letting other's join the group to get the work done. We were sooooo far away from the pits that the work had to get done there.

Similar thing happened last year at Buckeye when one of our 2 hooks broke. It was weird. We were all up in the stands and as soon as it happened about 5 kids jumped out of their seats and ran (safely) back to the pits to get the tools and fix the robot.

With the game as fierce as it will be at Championship, and the robots having played in more matches than usual, I believe it will be important for teams to have pit crew members help out with repairs on Field.

Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

At both UTC and Chesapeake, 2 pit crew members were allowed on the field at a time, plus you could get a third by giving up the coach badge.

Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

I remember being told this rule at Sacramento last year. I spent the entire time since hammering it into the club members that if they wanted to be on the drive team on the floor, they had to demonstrate a good working knowledge of the robot to be able to fix it should be be lucky enough to reach the finals.

This year I looked specifically for the rule as I also saw it not being enforced and couldn't find it. Can anyone point me to where this is written?

Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

I looked for rules on this during the Boilermaker Regional, but couldn't find anything on it. I couldn't understand at the time why we were only allowed to have the 4 member drive team on the field when other regionals had allowed pit crew memebers to join the team.

Another concern I had at the competition was who the Alliance Captain has to be. During drafting the referee told us that the only person who could call timeouts and substitutions was the alliance captain. If the representative the team chooses is not on the drive team shouldn't he or she be allowed into the queing area to speak to the referee? At Boilermaker they wouldn't even let the Alliance Captain into the field area without a badge. Again there is no rule on any of this. I think defined rules for next year would make the elimination process much easier and smoother.

Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

It is suggested at most regionals that it be a member of your drive team. And if for some reason this is not the case, then they suggest you transfer the bib.

Re: Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?
 

According to Update 19, the robots will have a pit crew on field during finals. This pit crew will be three persons. No designation of students or mentors.