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Originally Posted by Kims Robot
7. Bring back Robot stop buttons... make sure every team has a disable button, and disable buttons are easily accessible to refs. In toronto, a robot threw a tetra at our drivers, and was not disabled until 30 seconds later, when the ref pulled their human player off the pad. At our scrimmage, we had two people with three shut off switches (one for each team) watching each allaince, and if there were any times that safety came into question, they were to shut the robot off immediately. (matches can be rerun, people take much longer to be fixed!)
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Originally Posted by Aaron
I also like the e stop idea. its been four years since a team could 'punch out' in an emergency. The last thing would be to allow teams to challange calls if they have sufficient evidence, such as cued up video tape, and can present it to the refs in a short amount of time (3 min or less).
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I don't understand what you're saying. Every alliance station has three E-stop buttons that team members can press at any time. These have been there the last four years. My complaint is that referees now have to use these buttons to disable a robot, instead of the scorekeeper disabling them through the scoring software.
Sorry, but FIRST will NEVER allow referees to review video. It would be an absolute nightmare. It would take a week to run a regional. Will never happen, for good reason.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Briefly about penalties. Teams didn't have 4 months to figure out what would and wouldn't be penalized.
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Teams absolutely did have 4 months to figure out that if you hit a robot that is in a loading zone, you will be penalized.