[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

How is it interesting crowd control? It's the winning teams, it isn't saying "anyone with two feet come down and take a net!" Granted basketball teams are a lot small than your typical basketball team, so have someone cut it down and distribute the strings later. For some of the really big teams you might even have to cut the strings up!

You'd have to announce that it was only for the winning teams. Even then, you'd get the "I won X, can I cut down the net?".

Little story that I referred to earlier: At the 2009 L.A. Regional, the field crew had packed up the unused (and some used) orbit balls into bags before the awards ceremonies; the orbit balls would go into the trailer with the field. A couple of people came and asked if they could have one, to which the answer was "nope, they're going to the next event". But then a team came over with a "higher-up", who said that we should give them some of the orbit balls from the field due to them having exactly zero where they were from. OK, so we open up the bags to give them a few... and then came the "why do they get them?" and "I want one!" from other teams. That was not fun to control.

That's what I'm afraid of for any net-cutting. And that's probably why FIRST has told their volunteers not to allow it.