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Originally Posted by Waynep
I have to say I'm rather disappointed in the this thread and the posts coming from teachers and mentors. We should not be spotlighting this match in the manner that it is presented in this thread. Those students were pretty disheartened, I saw it on their faces, when the penalties were issued and now it's brought to the attention of the entire CD community which I think is really discouraging. We should applaud these guys for having the courage and determination to attempt Hybrid mode. What happened was literally beyond their operators control and they did not do it intentionally. Things go wrong; it happens to the best of us. You learn from it and move on. And if you are fortunate enough to be an experienced mentor that can help or can get someone to help these teams on the learning curve, you should rather than point out how to get 130 points in penalties.
-wayne
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I won't ding them for trying either--heck, we didn't even move in hybrid until Saturday at Chesapeake.
At the same time, this would make for a good teaching moment about the importance of the E-stop button in the alliance station--when you hit it, you do disable yourself for the match, but the referees will no longer score you up or down. If you see your robot moving like that, go ahead and mash the button and cut your losses. You'll be playing three-on-two for the rest of the match, but your partners stand a better chance to battle back from 30 points in the hole as opposed to 120.