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Originally Posted by Libby K
It was an absolute epidemic. Every time someone's robot was on a cart I could hear students screaming. Not even in the "pardon me, robot coming through!" way. These students were outright rude, and absolutely not at all self-aware about how unnecessary it was.
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This.
I was at the Orlando Regional as well, volunteering as an inspector. I could hear robots in the far opposite side of the pits "coming through".
There was one instance where I was going back to the pit with a team to do their inspection that really struck me. The Orlando pits were super crowded with narrow aisles and lots of people standing around pit entrances. The team I was following was yelling ROBOT, and when they hit a crowd they couldn't move (the people were faced away from them) they continued to yell ROBOT at the back of their heads until someone noticed and turned around. I couldn't believe it.
For the most part, if you tap one person on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me, robot coming through" they tend to get the rest of their party out of the way quickly as well. They're not
trying to be in your way.