[Foster]

I have to say I like Ryan Dognaux's plan to pilot this at an off-season event. I like the challenge rules (one per team, etc) that were presented in another post. I'm looking forward to seeing a series of threads on "How we did replays at XYZ event."

I'm also behind adding extra scorekeepers to the field crews to help stop some of the pain for upcoming events. It's possible that an extra set of eyes would cut the pain points way down.

In the past I've run very large VEX events. In most cases there are 2 refs watching the action on the fields. (Running two divisions at a time) Once elims start the refs double up and they pretty much get told watch a single robot's action. With a person focused on a robot it's hard to miss things. For example in VEX, the dreaded "pinning" is easier to manage since there is two refs watching (the robot doing the pinning and the robot being pinned each have a ref watching the action). Again, only for the eliminations, not possible for all matches.

I'm in a wait and see mode, happy to let Ryan and others pilot this out. Alpha test for Stronghold, beta for next year, to see how it flies.