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Re: Pet peeve in the pits
Posted by Jerry Eckert, Engineer on team #140 from Tyngsboro, MA High School and New England Prototype/Brooks Automation.
Posted on 3/31/99 10:57 PM MST
In Reply to: Pet peeve in the pits posted by Mike McIntyre on 3/31/99 9:40 PM MST:
: Is it just me or do other teams find it equally annoying when certain teams set up their pits with immovable structures that block the aisles? At Great Lakes, there were no aisles, just equally spaced tables everywhere; some teams completely blocked the space between their table and the surrounding ones so that everybody had to circle around their area to get by. If everybody decided to do what these few teams did, nobody would be able to move their robots anywhere as we'd all be locked in gridlock. I feel bad that I had to keep pestering the same few teams to let us squeeze by ( the ones who DIDN'T block the entire space between tables)but our routes to the playing fields were severely restricted by the same few teams. There! I feel better now.
I can't comment on Great Lakes, but at Hartford the pit area was smaller
than in previous years in Manchester. Even teams who were conscious of
space limitations in planning what to bring may have found themselves
exceeding the allocated space.
In many cases the teams which bring lots of stuff to the pit area are also
VERY generous about sharing their tools and spare parts with other teams
in need. I don't want to think about how much more difficult it would be
all around if these teams are forced to cut back on what they bring to the
competition.
- Jerry
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