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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
one thing i regretted the most was. the 40 minute waste of time for the robot to go out to the match, wait, play the match and then return to the pits. I had our robot stay out by he filed for a few matches on Friday and i thought it was a great idea until i realized thee is no one in the pits to talk to judges or other teams. this problem should be addressed. the walk for the robots was horrible but not the walk for humans. i believe the walk for robots should/must be shorter then humans. good day. im tired.
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Amen! Besides the fact that I (a 51 year-old Team Coach) was exhausted from a 10-12 hour day of nearly constantly being on my feet, all the travelling from pit to field and back is a huge waste of time that teams may desperately need for other things.
I saw a few teams that found a spot half way out in the labrynth to stop and work on their robots, but even that is less than ideal. Someone would still need to run to the pit for any part or tool you didn't have. Communications from a team to their pits is very difficult and a way to legally provide it needs to be addressed.
It's nice to have a big event, but maybe it's gotten too big, or because they are trying to make it run at a pace that remains interesting to spectators, the whole thing is forced to run faster than we as teams can handle. The alternative, making the time between matches longer, maybe by using fewer fields so that the pace could be maintained, would make a three day event impossible.
If the pits could be put closer, maybe in four different, but closer areas by division, would help. I wouldn't care if they were as nice as the room we were in, even the dock areas we walked through could be used for pits, they just probably wouldn't be able to be open to the public. A room with team booths for displays and team promotion could be substituted for the public.
Maybe I'm a bit cranky from a 18-hour drive home pulling a trailer through a blizzard
but I'd sure like the pit to arena travel situation improved.
One thing that was done right and helped make things run smoother was the Wednesday night unpacking. For those of us who could do that, it really made Thursday a little less hectic. It probably even helped those who couldn't get there Wednesday, by getting us out of the way at the curb...
