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Originally Posted by Brian C

Not sure really, I'll have to check tomorrow.

Some real good matches today. A few with multiple supercells being scored.

We also had one teams robot literally "go up in flames" unfortunately team 263 had a catastrophic failure of, I believe a Victor speed controller and the match had to be stopped so the fire could be extinguished. In 10 years of being involed in FIRST that was the first time I had seen that during a match.

Right now the 2009 Buckeye Regional winners team 2010 and team 102 are at the top of the standings.

Tomorrow will be an interesting day for sure!

No one submitted, as for 263 that was kind of interesting. While I know it is in bad taste to sit and giggle slightly WE ALL (the field crew) didn't know the severity up until we hit the pause button at which time that was when the flame was noticable. I DID have the extinguisher out front but it was thought that it could cause a tripping hazardso it was moved to the curtain but still visible. Nevertheless Jim and another volunteer got it under control within seconds. I give all the teams who helped get 263 back on the field today and all the volunteer personnel who checked and re-checked and re-re-checked to insure not only robot safety, team safety, volunteer safety and venue safety their due credit. While I do not agree with an 8 minute stress test I know for a fact that there is no time limit for tetherd / wireless stress test. They probably gave it 8 minutes b/c of the amount of time total the robot may sit on the field which was usually between 5 - 8 matches. If anyone noticed the 2nd. Fire Ext. was located by me to the front of the score table where it was clearly visible up until it was packed away in the tool and pit admin crates.