[EricH]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

It's generally known that our team runs to the pits after a match. The scouts hang around waiting for their next assignment from the scout leader, the builders all rush back to make sure everything still works, the safety captain is almost always there, and everyone wants to talk to the drivers to makes sure that things went well during the match and no major issues came up.

So for me, or anyone else on my team, to tell people on my team to stay in the stands would be unfair. They have a full right to come down and check out the robot, talk to people, get status updates, etc. And it's understandable that right after a match is almost always the worst, but it generally clears out.

If your scouts need new assignments after every match of yours, I think your scouting system needs reworking. When I was on 330, we never had an issue with scouting assignments--you got a set of sheets with teams on them, and those were the teams you scouted in those matches. If you needed to go elsewhere, the sheets went to someone else.

Everyone wants to make sure that nothing came up and everything went well. Great! Send one or two members from the stands and have them report back. They can also inform whoever's up there that so-and-so is needed because his thingamabob is broken and he's the only one who knows how to fix it, or that there's a repair emergency.

Yes, everyone has a full right to do everything you say. However, when everyone exercises that right at the exact same time, it doesn't help you at all. Have a rotation in the pits/stands so that everyone can cycle through the pit area in a more organized fashion.

To the OP:
I would have a minimum of people in the pit. The minimum I'd have would be the drive team, the safety captain, and 1-2 people to talk to the judges/inspectors/other teams. Also have a programmer or two either in the pit or close at hand. Maybe 1-2 other people. Cycle everyone through in a schedule.