Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT

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Originally Posted by bulbajackel

I wish more FIRST volunteers were here to comment but they prefer robot because it is the fastest way, even if a team is late getting to the field. Honestly, they do have greater priority of other people, its not the team that thinks that, its whoever created the match sequence.

Really? Thus far you have heard from: two former FIRST Senior Mentors, at least one volunteer coordinator, and I count at least 8 other volunteers (plus me now). That's over 17% of the commentors on this thread, and (like the vast majority of other commentors) none of us agree that it's universally preferable.

Originally Posted by bulbajackel

Let me address this simply, why do you think its rude? I see if its rude if you seen a team yell if the walkways are clear... but in most cases theres a minority doing that.

The majority of the people who hear you yelling at a disruptive level are actually, actively in your way? Wow. That's a ridiculously big problem in and of itself. In the 7 years that I've been the vanguard of our cart, I've never had to ask more than maybe 1 in 15 of the people who would hear me yell "robot" to please move out of the way. In virtually every pit layout I can imagine, the vast majority of people who hear you yell are not impeding your movement--yelling merely creates more chaos and annoys people who don't actually have to move.


Personally, my first priority is to get the Green Shirts to stop ordering and/or rewarding teams to yell "robot" regardless of who is or is not in their way. Between that and putting an end to overflowing pits (including sometimes our own), much of this issue and others would become less obtrusive.