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Re: Lessons learned 2005: The negative

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Realtime scoring can only be so accurate. There's exactly two people doing it, and this year they had to keep up with all 9 goals at once. If your coach can't do it himself I fail to see how you can expect someone else to do it and enter it onto a pocket pc as well.
I will attest to the madness of RTS this year. I did it for Curie, and it really should have been a three-person job (one per row of goals). Instead, one did the red home row, the center row nearest the audience, and the center goal, while another did the other four goals. When they scored, you had to hit a small button, and then change the ownership at the bottom if it changed. Usually it worked--but oh, how I hated it if the blue alliance scored tetras on the far (near to the audience) center goal. (Half the time tapping that one button to score the tetra resulted in bringing up the PDA's clock.)

I once again have to give props to the guys from 312 who came out of functionally nowhere to help out on Curie with RTS. I definitely wouldn't have been able to do all myself!
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2004-2006: FRC 1293 (D5 Robotics) - Student, Mentor, Coach
2007-2009: FRC 1618 (Capital Robotics) - Mentor, Coach
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