What we learned from week 1

[Libby K]

I've only skimmed the thread, so here's my observations - sorry if they're repeats.

Automated weight-scoring: Awkward when it's broken. Sometimes we were losing 582-14. However, when they take the score down off the big screen, the countdown timer goes too, since it's all the same graphic. It'd be helpful to change that, since some coaches look there instead of the ones on the alliance wall. (Also, at GSR the timer on the driver's station was occasionally not working. It was weird.)

Frisbee Blizzard: Much better than Week 0, but my official count was Near Misses- 10, Frisbees-to-the-face- 1. Most of those were white discs during robot-only times. Only a few were out of control HPs. Keep in mind, I was up taking pictures for my teams, so I was by the field a lot. But still, it gets crazy.

Weird Ref Happenings: 229 got bumped in the last few seconds of the match as we were on the 10-point hang, and the other 'bot was touching us when the buzzer sounded. Ref called for a reset before we could ask, but we were NOT awarded the climb-impedance-foul-points. The answer upon challenging was "Oh, sorry, we reset too quickly, I didn't see it." Sorry, Head Ref whose name I don't know, but that's all on you. If you're a ref, PLEASE look at the field at rest before you signal the all-clear.

Week one was a whole lot of fun for me. Looking forward to next week!