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Originally Posted by Brandon_L

A volunteer of some sort saw us, actually stopped us, and told me to walk back to the pit and get at least a total of 3 people. One to push, one to steer, and one to shout robot at the top of their lungs.

Yeah, we got pulled over for not shouting robot. I'm not saying anything about the volunteer, just saying we can't not shout robot

So, we've now heard of multiple instances of this administrative directive given at multiple events. It's coming from the top down. Whose brilliant idea was this?

Originally Posted by CoachPoore

I think I remember the incident you are referring to, Brendan. The following happened to 1519 at GSR in 2006. We were taking the robot to the practice field, and were chastised by a safety judge for not having a student out in front of the robot, shouting "Robot". We complied with their request, and approximately 10s later were given a safety token by a different safety judge, who complimented us on our safety practices

And this is why as a community, we should work toward fundamental reform of the safety award (given that I don't think we'd ever see it's elimination altogether).