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Originally Posted by HumblePie
It's my understanding (from talking to our drive team, and from an earlier post) that the field personnel disabled the robot because they were not within their frame perimeter at the beginning of the match. Why the match was allowed to start like that, we'll probably never know. The timing was unfortunate as they were disabled when it was right next to our protected feeder station, and in front of your driver station.
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Yeah, this was the main part that confused me after hearing what I could get from our captain and reading through the thread. Them being disabled, but not being disabled at the start of the match, is confusing to say the least. I guess it will just remain a mystery. Thanks for your side of the explanation Tom.
As for the possibility of 832's robot blocking visibility, this was very minor. The main problem with where they were situated was that it made our feeder station claustrophobic and we never took the time to push them out of the way.
I think that the reason they didn't use a clear material(I definitely could be wrong) was because they were creating the blocker with what they had during the *short* duration of a timeout, so they used what they could. I agree that a clearer material may be ideal to avoid any issue with the rule you mentioned though, given more time that's what I hope they would use.
The only robot that my drivers experienced large issues with during the competition when it came to visibility was a high level climber; and that's not their fault at all, just to be expected.