Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

[Drivencrazy]

Just to echo everyone else on this thread, I can't believe they didn't see that one coming. I thought at the beginning of the season that even with the nets we would see way more game pieces fly off the field than ever before and I even underestimated how many would be flying around based on my observation of week 0.

As for changing things this late in the season I can see both sides of the story. Yes it sucks. There is no denying it. Especially because it seemed so blatantly obvious that this would happen. And it sucks that it happened so late in the season. Remind anyone else of last year's troll bot?

On the other hand I understand why they did it. Let's face it, a lot of people who build robots aren't the most coordinated people in the world and even the most athletically inclined among us will make a bad toss every once in a while. It only takes one bad hammer to get someone hurt and I know that everyone in FIRST is concerned with people's safety.

I'm sorry for all the teams this has hurt. If I know anything I know that FIRST teams always find a way to make magic happen.