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Originally Posted by Kingofl337
Not when the FTA is not letting teams play 6-7 times a regional.
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I suggest that a better way to have phrased this would be "Not when non-functional robots are placed on the field 6-7 times."
At each of the four regionals I've worked at this year, the number one problem on the field has been teams forgetting to plug the Ethernet cable back into port 1 of their cRIO.
Throughout practice and early qualification matches we've given teams the chance to correct their error, and given them warnings that we would not continue to let them hold up everyone else if they continue to make this mistake. By Friday afternoon the Head Refs have usually taken the position that if everything else on the field is ready to go and a robot fails to link up because of this error, we would disable the robot and go.
I just cannot fathom how a team, who has put in countless hours and effort to get this far, does not take a checklist with them to queuing and spend the 30 seconds it would take to make sure the Ethernet cable is plugged in correctly, the battery is charged, etc. One of the things FIRST does a pretty good job of teaching is responsibility. Once they sit idle for a match we rarely see a team forget to plug their cRIO in twice. I call that a success.
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