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Re: Silicon Valley Regional 2008

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
See the Q&A Gary quoted. Replacements for broken trackballs come in:
  • at roughly the same location
  • at the next safe opportunity
and debris (the old one) might not be removed until after the match. So it's not when it's safe to recover the old one, it's when it's safe to put a new one in. A robot right there makes it kind of unsafe to put a new one in, wouldn't you say? (IIRC, there was a robot in the immediate vicinity for quite a while.)
I can see where some may say that, but I don't think it'd be unsafe to toss it over the robots and onto the floor.

The person reintroducing the trackballs onto the field does not have to step foot onto the field, or reach over the field border.

There seemed to be a lack of understanding of where and when balls should be reintroduced to the field at SVR in general. In a previous match a ball went out of bounds and was returned to the quadrant PRIOR to that which it exited the field from.

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Originally Posted by T3_1565 View Post
agreed!

If I remember correct there was a robot, by that popped ball for most of the time ( and if I'm even more exact it was a red team bot )
I thought it was a blue bot, but my memory is fuzzy.
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