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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
Zip ties break when shock loaded. While I was reffing at St. Joe this weekend, a teleoperated robot slammed the lexan just in front of my tablet, sending zip ties flying and the panel crashing. I kept counting the crossings while field reset volunteers quickly re-installed the panel -- only took a few seconds, and the robots stayed clear. If the game action had been different, our FTA might have called a field fault. I'm glad that was not necessary.
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We caused a foghorn in our last match; the driver was a little exuberant to get into our secret passage in pursuit of blocking 386, and just smacked the lexan clean off the wall. The panel was sitting in the secret passage and blocking traffic, which combined with a flustered ref nearby (sorry, Melissa!) led to a lot of refs on radios and us wondering how long they were gonna take to hit the button. (Felt like about 10-15 seconds? We didn't know whether to gun for the courtyard or just hold position, so we played it safe.)