[treffk]

My personal opinion is I do not like shorts in the pit area. This is just a personal preference that I try to enforce on our team. It's a safety think in my mind for the reasons that others have mentioned.

On a side note I also don't like morph suits either. I've actually tried to get students to take the hoods off if they are in the pits.

Although I do agree that I would rather enforce shoes, glasses, hair and extremely low hanging jewelry around the robot than nitpick about shorts.

When I was a student on the team I was 1 of the 2 (only 2 our team has every had in the 8 years of existence) cheerleaders on the team. I got permission to wear my uniform around the arena for the events. On that same line if I was wearing my skirt I always had pants underneath while in the pits.