Petition to end the shouting of ROBOT

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Wing

BEST robotics does this at their events. They assign 5 pit passes, 4 student and 1 adult pit pass. I'd rather not see FIRST do a system like that, since media often walks through the pits, but I'd like it if teams emphasized that the pits are not where socialization happens, and neither should students who don't know much about the robot come in groups to the team pit and start harrasing them, asking them what is wrong. Our team has every student that isn't pit crew stay in the stands scouting matches or doing pit scouting in groups of 2-3. Our pit is rarely crowded, if ever, since everyone has a job to do.

To be fair it's often parents who want to come down too the pits as well. I remember at GTR West one year I saw a team of 30 just covering the pit aisle with 30 people including a baby in a carriage.It's as if they had no concept there were other teams in the pits with them.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

To be fair it's often parents who want to come down too the pits as well. I remember at GTR West one year I saw a team of 30 just covering the pit aisle with 30 people including a baby in a carriage.It's as if they had no concept there were other teams in the pits with them.

It's always awkward asking parents to leave the area when they just want to see what their son or daughter has been working on for the past 6-8 weeks...but it's also really necessary. "Pit browsing" should be encouraged for all visitors but not clogging up one area.