[ErichKeane]

Wow, ok, interesting regional for a practice day. The practice field went very well, albeit it didnt use the same carpet as the real field.

I noticed with the carpet, the competition carpet was EXTREMELY slippery in comparision to any other carpet.

The field seemed put together somewhat shoddily, nothing lined up, distances were off, the center was messed up, etc.

The process for placing us into/out of Disable/Autonomous is horrible. Never again should they count on a man with an allen wrench. There has to be a better way, absolutely has to. In each of our rounds, we lost at least 5 seconds wating for the guy to: put us into auto, take us out, make sure we werent in disable when we shouldnt be, etc.

1 team happened to destroy a gear, shattering it accross the field. anyone want to elaborate? Also, anyone else notice the big 303 FRIDGE. That bot was the most amazing one out there, and from no on, i (un)officially nickname them the FIRST Fridge.



ETA: Does anyone else think that using the portable goals to block the ball corals for the other team is the absolute CHEAPEST and most rediculous tactic? I forgot which team did it during the practice rounds, im surprised they didnt get boo'ed.

Also, i think only like 3-4 teams made it on the bar successfully, and only like 2 teams did autonomous successfully.