[ChrisH]

All this talk about safety is just a smokescreen. I am not particularly tall but I can stand behind a three foot line and REACH to the controls. I don't necessarily have to move my feet at all. It wouldn't be comfortable but I can do it.

The real issue is as Dave Lavery posted earlier and many of you seem to be ignoring. There has been much discussion of how to communicate with the robot via the control station. In my not so humble opinion this is to circumvent a very important part of the game design.

There is a reason the human player portion of the game is AFTER the robots are in place. That is so you MUST decide what program your robot is going to run BEFORE you know what the human players are going to do.

The rule is to prevent teams from switching from "attack the highest stack" to "bring home the boxes" or vise versa during the human player portion of the match. It may be that there are technological "holes" in the system that will allow you to do this and that cannot be prevented any other way. I don't know because I for one haven't been looking.

At least those of you who are looking were silly enough to post it here, so everybody knows about it and something can be done. If you were REALLY intelligent and discovered some method to do this, you would understand the tremendous competitive advantage and keep your yap shut. Then you would just use it in competition in such a way that people would marvel at either your programming skill or your ability to read the other team's mind. But you wouldn't say anything about it, certainly not here.

All the fuming is really about having your advantage taken away, and it's your own fault. You made a little too much noise in the kitchen and got caught with your hands in the cookie jar.

Stop whining, you're sounding like children. Oh wait, most of you are children.