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Originally Posted by Richard
And your team had a truly great pit. The best example of 5S that I have seen at a FIRST event.
This year we reduced pit width (side-to-side) from 10ft. to 9ft. We did it so we could reduce the number of aisles four to three and increase aisle width from 10ft. to 13ft. The goal was to keep traffic congestion to a minimum, and still have space for a practice carpet. A few teams with pre-built 10ft. wide pit structures had to adjust, or borrow space from neighbors.
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While a pit smaller than the 10x10x10 can be a little cramped sometimes, St. Louis has had a few issues with pit traffic in the past... well, maybe more than a few.
So opening up those aisles was definitely a great improvement over past years.
We had a pre-built pit entrance that was 10' wide, but luckily, we had an end pit. Turning our entrance towards the pit admin table solved some problems, and created new ones... I don't think the judges were too happy with our over-zealous team members crowding around and spilling into the aisle
a bit too often. :3
Going to the OKC regional will be a big change - I hear they have enough room in the Ford Arena for 10x15x10 pits...