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Originally Posted by pathew100
Pressing the E-stop does not effect your QS or RS scores. It merely disables your robot.
Now if you got a Red Card from the head ref for improper use of the E-stop button that's a different story...
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i will assure you, our autonomous ran in 10 matches. so we had a working robot. we only received qualification points for 7 of those. the field crew cited the estop as the reason
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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
That has not been the case for at least 5 years.
Last year introduced the "inappropriate e-stop use" rule, which results in a red card. The e-stop is to be used only in an emergency (hence the "e" in the name). Not wanting to incur a penalty is not an emergency. Smoking is an emergency.
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Interesting to note... where the field crew did not cite this rule it is good to know. Our robot started barreling around the field at full speed. for the sake of everyone the robot was estopped.
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Originally Posted by computerteen643
I just pulled your file from our team's scouting box (which was done Friday) and from what I see you had at least 2 matches that you had considerable issues. I cannot draw any conclusions since I didnt personally see it, but it also looks like you were a lower-scoring bot. I had actually stopped by your pit to learn more on Thursday and didn't make too many notes. The standings ranked you 29th of 53 or so and shows 5 wins and 2 losses with 7 matches (when most teams had 10). I assume you were disqualified 3 times or missed a few matches. We actually had you under consideration if we did get to pick, pending the reliability of your bot. We were lucky enough to get picked out of the 31st spot and compete in 1 round. Congrats to all BAE competitors! It was a tough competition and everyone did their best!
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*unfortunately*(not for me but my team) I had an interview that came up on thursday. i am the team's only programming resource this year and we had some problems that day. So I assume it was a bit chaotic. probably why you didn't find out much. Also I am not claiming we earned the number 11 rank, however this is a flaw in the ranking algorithm, as we would have been 11th had we not estopped.
the 3 matches where we had error were a product of the broken network jack on our netbook. at some point on friday someone yanked out the ethernet cable. so when it popped out on the field, the robot went crazy.
Once again, my claims about the ESTOP are not based on suspicion, the field crew told us at the end of competition. if the estop is hit you will NOT receive any ranking or qualifying points for that match.