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Originally Posted by MrJohnston
In the rules, it says that drive teams must set up their robots from transport configuration before each match and pack it back into transport configuration quickly. "60 seconds" is given as a "guideline."
With all the very creative/innovative/complicated robots we are seeing in reveal videos, I am starting to wonder how many of them are going to be able to do that? Do we have any idea how strictly referees are going call the 60-second guideline? I know we made some design decisions with that guideline in mind, but I wonder if some others did not? Or at least hope to abide by the time limit rather loosely?
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FIRST wants to stick to it's turn around time (rumor is it'll still be six minutes) but there are always teams who will push the envelope. I'm sure a team that is taking a minute or two at first is fine but if a team is consistently taking too long the ref will most likely give them a hard time. If teams want a certain amount of matches it would be in their best interest to keep delays to a minimum. FIRST will cancel matches to keep up with their deadline of finishing the event on time.