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Posted by nick237 at 03/10/2001 8:29 PM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: Three suggestions for FIRST
Posted by Joe Johnson on 03/10/2001 7:13 PM EST:



Joe. FIRST has to give more time between games for teams to reset and or repair their robots after a game.
We ended one game and were immediatly called up on deck so we went to the side of the stage in near total darkness and struggled to fix some damage with no tools and reset the robot that at that time was nearly 12 feet long.
So we need more time and more light......
Thanks.
nick237


: I have two suggestions that I think we should press
: FIRST to implement:

: #1 publish the match schedule at least an hour before
: the match.

: Our driver coaches at UTC said most times they had to
: tell the robot drivers what we were doing as the teams
: were being anounced by Woodie. Often they would not
: complete telling the drivers what they would be doing
: before the match was started. "Don't worry, I will
: talk you through it" became an extremely common phrase
: on stage just as the match began.

: Little is gained by not giving teams more time to work
: out a strategy and much is lost.

: #2 run each group at the nationals like a regional in
: that 4 alliances should be in the elimination rounds.

: To me it seems crazy that only 10 out of 84 teams make
: it to the elimination rounds. This is going to mean a
: lot of team go home thinking they should have been picked.

: #3 Change the tie breaker to time left on the clock not
: average score for the 3 match set. At a mininum, put
: time on the clock above rank in the seeding rounds. It
: seems silly to break a tie between Alliances A and B by
: how they played against groups 1 and 2 with no common
: teams in the groups.

: Comments?

: Joe J.