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Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl
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.
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I'm going to play a little devils' advocate here, because this bothers me a bit.
1> Do you really believe that your parctice time is more valuble then the defensive team across the way?
2> Do you believe that you need to practice driving on the carpet more then they do?
3> Do you believe that they don't need to know how their robot will react when interacting with other robots?
There is a reason it is called a practice
MATCH, and not just practice. You should come to the field
EXPECTING a
MATCH. If your robot is not ready for the field (no bumpers, etc), why would you ask the other team to not practice the strategy that they came with???
I do agree that teams need to talk before practice matches, but that being said i believe it is not fair to ask a team to not practice what they would do in a match just because you are not ready. It's like asking an offensive tubing robot to not touch the rack or a ramp-bot to not deploy it's ramps just because you are not ready for that yet.
Sorry for the rant. The above is JM(NS)HO