[EricH]

Originally Posted by MagiChau

Never, ever, have a single time where no one is at the pit is the obvious but needed to be emphasized tip. It may suck not being able to see robots compete in some matches, but take one for the team to make sure anyone that visits the pit can ask a team member without hassle of searching.

And rotate that duty. Unless someone specifically volunteers to spend every match of yours in your pit... Or you're in the end pit by the screen at Pit Admin, so you can watch matches from the pit.

Also, be sure that whoever's in the pit has at least one working cell phone number to call the stands (and a working phone in the pit), or some other non-radio signaling method. I could tell of a time or two when someone was needed in a hurry in the pit and either had to be paged via PA or was turned around in the stands to get to the pit.

Chairs in the pit: One. Two at the most. Any more, you clutter it up. One is for the programmers to sit on, the second is for either a second programmer or whoever needs to sit down, beyond that, go to the stands or find a suitably strong box/bin/tool chest.