Talking about wierd thing with matches, one of ours was paused. A battery fell out with about 35 seconds to go(when I noticed it), Mike Wade told everyone to stop at about 25 seconds. They took the battery out and restarted the match at about 22 seconds. I was just like..what?
Looking for teams it was easier to look at the robots then the offical signage, prolly about 14 point font on a curled piece of paper.
I'm surprised as well at how dry the carpet stayed, but I saw plywood under the carpet after a few matches where it was ripped up. They brought out the staple gun and stapled it back down.

We had one match where we had no data/radio the entire time because Griffen forgot to reset the robot after changing the dipswiches. There was some other confusion around this, we had signal, but on the wrong channel. Swiched it when the guy told us to, and then didn't have signal on the correct channel. Way to go Griffen.
The carpet was used at the Building Musem demo/thing at the end of the build period, and at Elenor Roosevelt in 2001 for their pre-ship testing day. It worked well, until put under heavy stress/high traction situations.
My opinion, as a new driver/part of the flight crew, was that the field was just fine. Thats without comparing it to an 'offical' field/player station. I did feel a bit sorry for the middle school kids, especially the one who's chin was at the edge of the plexi. (I was short then too

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One other thing, another table in the pit would have been tremendously helpful. We ended up working on the bot with it on two chairs. Didn't help that we had standing water on Sunday, and the heat gun didn't do much when there was water comming in.

Heat gun worked well on Monday, when it wasn't raining tho.
I have a bunch more pics, if people wanna see them I will get unlazy and format them and upload them.
Wetzel
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/me is listening to E:\Snake River Conspiracy\Snake River Conspiracy - Somebody Hates You.mp3