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Originally posted by JVN
Another one I noticed is trivial compared to the others, but I'm still curious about it. In Cleveland this year (and every other competition I've been to in 3 years) we were allowed to place our controls in the booth while on deck for a match. As long as the controls were not hooked up they were okay. However in Toronto we weren't allowed to place the controls, between elimination matches we were even ordered to remove our controls from the shelf entirely. Did this occur at any other regionals besides Toronto? Does anyone know the reasoning behind this?
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Interesting you should ask.
During the elimination matches at the Great Lakes Regional, the controls of the teams in the non-playing match were sitting on the shelf. Then, a robot crashed into the wall at a high speed knocking the contols off of the shelf and onto the ground. I'm not sure, but I think that this team's competition was over due to their controls smashing into the ground. I believe this is the reason that FIRST is no longer allowing the controls to be on the shelf if you're not playing.