[Jon Stratis]

It's turning into a great regional, despite some issues for a few unfortunate teams. We had two major incidents yesterday.

One robot smoked their entire electrical board when a spike came loose and got crushed into some other components, back feeding current into the system where it shouldn't go. It was the biggest cloud of smoke I've seen at one of these events!fortunately we didn't need the fire extinguisher, although there's a picture floating around of one of our fearless FTA's running towards the robot with it. Last I heard, the robot was back up and running last night!

The second incident was an exploding pressure tank, on the field. We looked at the pieces, and it appears the failure was due to a combination of items - first, the tank was both damaged and compressed by mounting it with a hose clamp, and then it took a hit from another robot and blew. I really have to caution everyone not to stress these tanks with anything!