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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Your dropbox hates hotlinking. I'll attach your picture to this post for clarity.
If that's representative of your claim that you only use 29% of your pit for storage and robot, then I'm skeptical. If that's a 10' x 10' pit and those square on the corners are 18" squares, then it sure looks like you're already using nearly 30% of your pit space without a robot in there. And a robot with bumpers is going to take up about 10% of your pit space as it is. Basically, I'm skeptical of your claim that you can have 13-16 people fully contained in your pit and working productively on a robot.
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It is impossible. Assume that the average person takes up 1 square foot of space that leaves 5 square feet of non-human existence and you can barely fit a robot much less tools, the table, and have room to work (because 1 square foot is just standing room not moving around and actually working).
What I really can't stand is when people put so much in their pit for display, storage, and "cool factor" that the team members have to stand outside of their pit to work or have the robot sticking out the front.
There is no reason why a team would need more than 7 people in their pit. (4 drive team and 3 pit crew). If you trained your members properly there would be no need to have a judging reps because you pit and drive team should know your team inside and out.
If teams stayed on top of how many people they had in their pit area and the spill out effect that happens into the aisle. The pits would be a much safer, happier, quieter, and nice place to be for guests and sponsors.