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Originally Posted by kawelch
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Originally Posted by Cory
But absolutely nobody is hurt by doing so in this case.
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No one gets hurt? My team was first back-up team in a regional when a bot broke... we were ready to compete and were a higher rank than some of the teams competing... the other Alliance calls a time out giving an additional six minutes. The bot was repaired and the match concluded. We were left out because the no cascade rule was not followed... but hey no one got hurt. |
I have to disagree here. The teams competing in the elimination matches have earned their right to be there either by being top teams and getting to pick their alliance or by displaying qualities that are advantageous to a choosing alliance.
Matches can be punishing on a robot and over time things break. FIRST allows for this by allowing time-outs in the first place. During qualifying matches, teams tend to have ample time to fix problems that occur and time-outs help to remedy this situation for elimination matches. Six minutes is not a lot of time, but it may be the difference between competing in a match or not competing because you have a functioning robot that needed a minute more to replace a sprocket that is back in the pits.
I am not saying that your team didn't earn a chance to compete, we too have been passed over for teams that we didn't feel warranted a selection over ourselves, I am just saying that if six minutes is enough time to fix a problem between a match, and an alliance is willing to give up their own time-out to allow this, then this the ideal of gracious professionalism at work and completely within the spirit of the competition. And if six minutes isn't enough, the next backup team has now earned itself a second chance to compete for robotics glory.