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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
Maybe it's just a Michigan thing, but the pits seem to be kind of a hang out area for almost 50% of the teams here in my area, and it would be IMPOSSIBLE to get from point A to point B in a timely matter without this practice. Heck, I have difficulty navigating the pits as an individual!
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I propose that the solution to overcrowded pit areas is not to add to the noise and chaos, but to reduce it.
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8) It starts a chain reaction of other teams yelling for no apparent reason - this statement assumes "for no apparent reason", which has yet to be proven. And if useful, this chain reaction is a good thing.
9) With repetition, it becomes white noise and loses all meaning - no it doesn't. If I yell robot, then get out of the way; here comes a robot! If robotless people yelled robot, THEN it would lose its meaning.
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The chain reaction complaint doesn't assume no apparent reason, it
observes one. Someone who is not accompanying a robot has no apparent reason to be shouting ROBOT! at all. The chain reaction isn't useful precisely
because robotless people are yelling and making it lose its meaning.
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11) It gives teams a false sense of entitlement that others will drop everything to move out of their way - well they should. GP? We got a match and need to get somewhere and you don't. If you need to get somewhere with your robot, then we shouldn't be in you way either.
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You're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking.
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TLDR; yelling robot tells everyone around you that you and your robot is coming and they need to get out of the way ASAP. Exactly what it's supposed to do, in the most efficient manner possible.
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The big failure with that is that you don't need to tell
everyone around you that they need to get out of the way. You only need to tell the people who are in your way. The most efficient way to do that is to walk ahead of the robot and ask them to move. A general shout of ROBOT! doesn't give a good indication of which way you're trying to go, and doesn't help people clear the path you want to take.