[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

For the record, this was a rookie/young team. They had extra badges by dint of attending the Alamo Regional earlier this year.

As I recall, there's 3 types of badges, maybe 4.
1. Operator/human player badges are light blue, not dots. These are interchangeable.
2. COACH badge, same as above, but with a yellow dot. This means no-touchy the controllers. Even to save them from certain doom. (Yes I've seen a penalty for that.)
3. Safety Captain badge. Light green, you don't get field access with this badge.
4. I think I saw media badges at Lone Star? I was roaming the pits 90% of the regional, so I dunno. If I wasn't hallucinating, these were also light green but obviously conveyed field access.

For the media badges it depends, it varies from event to event. We had NI Multimedia and they were give volunteer badges but it said media on the bottom and each team was given a florescent orange sticker for student media.
In Colorado last year they had these plastic pin badges for media.