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Originally Posted by David Brinza
I served as a volunteer at the SoCal Regional this year performing tetra repair on both days of competition and was dubbed "Dr. Tetra". Woodie autographed my FIRST crew t-shirt right under the Dr. Tetra "insignia"  .
FIRST had just acquired new clovers that were punched from colored poly-propylene to replace the thicker low density polyethylene clovers. On Friday, broken tetras came off of the field frequently - sometimes 2 or 3 in a single match. On Saturday, I was joined field-side by my son, Clayton - he had a blast assisting "Dr. Tetra". By time we reached the elimination round, most of the tetras had the newer clovers, which seemed much more durable. In the semifinals and finals, I think there was only one broken tetra is spite of the much more intense play.
I was surprised to see many tetras in Atlanta with the thicker polyethylene clovers, probably something only a tetra repair specialist would notice... |
I held the same job as you, at UTC. We had two different clover styles, the original, soft ones, and then the much harder ones. We replaced all the originals with the new ones, which worked out much better.
At SVR, I noticed that a good number of the clovers were very thin compared to the others. They also seemed to be breaking a whole lot more. There was one point where there were around 6+ tetras out of play all being repaired. I imagine the SVR field went to SoCal the next week and you got these tetras.