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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Now Frank, will you PLEASE consider directing local regionals to allow teams to set up their pit areas during load-in night? It is SO much safer and easier than in the rush of things on the first morning. To be blunt, the existing schedule and limitation on setup is stupid.
We load in all our stuff Wednesday night, completely filling the 10x10 area, then Thursday morning we move it ALL out of the 10x10 area completely, blocking the aisle and getting in the way of numerous people, and then assemble back into our pit area piece by piece properly. While the pit setup is taking place, we usually move the robot to a vacant hallway or other area to prepare it for inspection. It's a very disruptive process to all parties in attendance, and we take up 3 pit areas worth of space doing it.
Just let us set up the pit on load-in night when hardly anybody is there.
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We don't have this in districts anymore but I will chime in that under the regional system this really should be considered.
It really wasn't worth the time to drive 25 minutes to the venue, spend 10 minutes unloading, and then drive 25 minutes home to spend 10 minutes the next morning clearing the pit again and in everyone's way.
I know the first argument regarding not making this change is it will give an unfair advantage to teams who couldn't make it the night before for some reason or another but whatever "advantage" that is there is minimal. Even when we have to setup our pit there is always a few hands tearing apart the robot as needed during setup or what many teams do now which is to not even setup their pits until Thursday night when the robot work is complete. We had to wait nearly two hours after doors opened to get into our first district event but that didn't stop us and our laundry list of to-dos.
Its little things like this that can make events less stressful on everyone that they just won't do for one reason or another.