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Originally Posted by marshall
This. Really. Bugs. Me. It's why we no longer have a canopy and why we are constantly working on our pit furniture and trying to make it more functional and less decorative.
Seriously, teams that should know better take up valuable space in the aisles of the pit area and cause many safety issues, not just for the inspectors but for other teams. I don't feel like this is something FIRST should issue language around but we as teams should make a bigger deal out of pit preparation etiquette. Pits should be setup quickly and provide a safe place to work without encroaching on the aisles or other pits.
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This is part of the point of letting teams do it early. If they take up some of the aisle, it's much less of an issue on Wednesday night with 5 or fewer people per team than it is on Thursday morning with every team member wanting to come to the pits. There has always been a window for teams to arrive of a 1-2 hours, and from what I've seen as an inspector (who had to be there for load in), teams tend to not arrive all at the same time on Wednesday. It's rather staggered, so the aisles are even less of an issue than 5 people per team all at the same time.
Just keep the window the same and make all the teams leave by the deadline, and you won't have to keep volunteers any later than normal. Just set the stipulation that when they're done setting up their pits, they need to leave the venue. I think people are making it a bigger issue than it really is.