[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Agreed, but it should not be limited to defenders. You should always talk to the other teams out there during practice. Tell them what you plan on doing, and what you are expecting.

You'll find that most teams are willing to accomodate.

I know we frequently do not have the bumpers on the robot during the first few practice matches on Thursday, either because we are trying to get to inspection between matches and need to save time, or because we are using the practice match time to fine tune the operation of our robot. Either way, we'd prefer not to have other people running into us without warning us first.

Also, since we don't own a piece of field carpeting due to financial and space limitations, those first couple of practice matches are very valuable to us in terms of our operators learning how the robot drives differently on the field than it did in the room we practice in at the school. It's really hard to do that while someone is running into you.