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Re: Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Practice fields are sometimes backed up for days. It's completely impractical to expect every team to be able to just go to the practice field spontaneously whenever they have to do a simple test.
I made this point in a another topic.

If your robots are large and your game piece can fall/open into a larger area perhaps the venues should provide floor space not on the practice field to run such tests in a less cramped area than the pits.

Surely open floor space without a practice field would be easier to get.
I wouldn't think most teams would spend the entire competition to run these tests.

This year is a fine example. A robot not in the transport configuration can be pretty large. Especially if it's one of these tethered robots. It quickly gets to be an issue to fit a simple test into the pit area or even the walk area in front of your pit area.
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