[KenWittlief]

At the FLR there was a goal setup by the pit area that teams could use to test their light trackers and shooters.

Practice on thrusday should be like practice for a football or basketball game - you sort of play, but you dont put your own team-mates in the hospital in a practice game.

The matches are setup like real games, except for the time. If FIRST didnt want this time to be 'like a real match' they could have let the teams on the field for 10 minutes to do what they want.

There is a simple answer for this problem. Make up yellow signs or triangles or something you can put on your robot. If your robot has not yet been inspected, or you are still missing stuff (like bumpers) on thrusday, you put the big yellow triangle on your bot, and all the teams are told this means "NO CONTACT!"

Then teams who want to mix it up on thursday and see how well they can push each other around will know which bots want to play, and which ones are being tested and debugged.