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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
There's a fine line between enforcing the rules and letting the games actually play out. It doesn't do anyone any good if a team is constantly being disabled for an issue - it penalizes their alliance members and discourages the students.
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The rule is in place to encourage teams to take care of their bumpers, and alliance members should be willing to help fix them if there is anything wrong.
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
Personally, I loved having more robots disabled for issues on the field than we've seen in the past - do that for a few years and I think we'll see some drastic improvements in areas that typically get very little attention from teams (bumpers!).
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I personally didn't see many disabled, which upset me.
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
That said, one of my biggest challenges as an LRI this year was in begging leniency from the head refs for a match or two while a team worked on a fix. Not everything can be fixed in the short period between matches, and from my perspective so long as safety isn't impacted I want to see the team's play while they get a fix in place, not sit there disabled match after match because they haven't had enough time to fix it yet.
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Also a good point. In my team's first event our winch bent and we needed a minimum 30 to 45 minute period for the repair, which we didn't get until the end of the day. I also spent about 20 minutes behind inspection at the Hartford event trying to raise the bumpers 1/8 of an inch to pass.
There's a lot that went wrong and right this year, hopefully next year will be greatly improved.