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Originally Posted by ttldomination
I agree that the practice fields were being run kind of roughly. We waited for 5 minutes for the rounds to start. I don't get why we couldn't just run practices where each team is allowed to be on there independently.
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Ahh, the practice field. Let's begin...
On Thursday, we are quick to sign up for two practice slots. Later, we show up for the first one, and it turns out they've gone to the queue system instead of the time slot system. So, we stand in line for about fifteen minutes until we finally get on the practice field. After about one minute of driving, Popular Mechanics comes by to take some pictures with Dean and the robots (which is awesome BTW, don't get me wrong); we spend the next thirty minutes posing our robot for pictures. The practice field people give us five minutes of real practice time after that. We ask them if we can get in line again since we didn't get much actual practice time, and they say yes. We then stand in line for fifteen minutes, only the be told that no, sorry, we're giving priority to teams who haven't been on the field yet; you probably won't get on for a while.
It's Friday morning, and we're back to the time slot system. Once again, we sign up for two slots. When the first slot rolls around, we realize we aren't going to make it due to robot problems. I go to the practice field to reschedule and ask what times they have open. "1:15, 1:25, 1:35, 1:45...", replies the volunteer running the field. I tell her I'm going to check with my team and come back. We quickly decide 1:25 is the best slot for us. I run back to the practice field and ask for 1:25. The
same volunteer says that they've gone to the queue system for the rest of the day. Apparently, during the sixty seconds it took me to run between our pit and the practice field, they switched from the time slot system to the queue system yet again. We stand in line for about twenty minutes, realize we have a match coming up, and end up with no practice time on Friday.
Saturday morning, and this time they're using the queue system from the start. We stand in line early and get on the field. Five minutes later, we're told to get off. Since when do practice field slots only last five minutes? Laughing, we return to our pits and hope that the practice fields are run better next year.