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Unread 19-03-2006, 14:37
Jaine Perotti Jaine Perotti is offline
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Re: GP, Ramming, and Practice

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Originally Posted by Not2B
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Originally Posted by KenWittleif
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!"
Now that's a good idea.

I imagine that teams would respect that. (If not... what the heck is up with them!?!?)
This would be a good idea, but in order for it to work, I think it would need to be something made official by FIRST. That way it would be a universally accepted signal telling other teams not to play defense against the sign-wearer. It's not likely that every team in FIRST is going to read through this thread and realize that this is the way to make your intentions known. FIRST would have to officially tell all teams to do this in order for this to serve as the solution to the problem.

So - until FIRST makes "sign-wearing" the official communication method of intent, talk to the opposing alliance before your practice match.
Let them know whether or not you are interested in having them play heavy defense on your robot. I am sure that they would honor your request.

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