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Re: People as Support Personnel in the Elims, How many is too many?

You have 4 drive team members and 3 pit crew members. That's clear. The problem is, team media passes.

Certainly, if somebody's wearing another team's badge and working on their own robot, then that's too far.

My thought is that, assuming that this is an issue, an area should be established for each alliance/field. Team members of any team with media badges should stay beyond a 5' limit. They can't actually work on the robot, but they can act as runners. Anybody with a pit crew or driver badge can be anywhere in the area. (It is assumed that once your drive team has no further reason to be there, they return their robot to the pit and pack it up.)

In cases of major catastrophic damage, of course, all bets are off--changing a wheel or replacing a drive chain isn't exactly catastrophic. Even FLL, which says "Thou shalt not have more than 2 members at the table at any time", makes an exception for repair emergencies.

Or you could leave it the way it is now.
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