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Re: Robot Setup
I think this rule has 2 purposes, the first is as a way to resolve conflict within an alliance when it comes to placing robots or ropes. For example, if an alliance is setting up for a match, and all three robots want to be right in front of the center pin, who gets it? Well they are free to work it out themselves, or if they can't then they just go by player station order and the team in player station one gets the spot. Now hopefully they all know the rules and will give the spot to team1, but if not, the ref can get involved. Please know the rules and don't get the ref involved here, it just slows the game down.
The second and more likely issue is two teams on opposing alliances robots interact during autonomous. This will likely happen more later in the competitions once teams know what each other can do. Here's an example...
Blue Alliance's Team1 can run out and hit a hopper and make a bunch of high goals during auto, or run several other less productive auto programs.
Red Alliance Team1 has an auto program they made that can disrupt blue teams hooper auto.
Red Team 1 only wants to run their disrupter auto if they know Blue Team 1 is going to go for the hopper.
Blue Team 1 only wants to run the hopper auto if they know Red Team 1 wont be running their disruptor auto.
This could mean the teams just eye each other and try and guess, and keep moving their robots around until the refs get mad at the delay of game or they could ask for the ordered placement.
In the case above, once they call for the ordered placement, Red Team 1 places first. If they pick the location that works for their hopper disruptor program, Blue team 1 goes second and picks a different location / program then they would have if they saw Red Team 1 set up on a different spot.
Again, this really only matters once you know what other robots can do and where they set up for what programs they are running. You can't change where another alliance places their robots, but you can change where you place yours, based on where they place theirs.
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