Pedestal Delays

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Originally Posted by Hoover

Hopefully an operator can describe how this works. It has to be manually turned on, I don't see how it can be automated.

We had an incident at MAR Mount Olive. Another team human player already had a ball ready to load a robot. When I turned around our human player had taken a ball off the pedestal. As coach I chased after him before he threw it onto the field and returned it to the pedestal. Here is where it becomes a blur. When I returned it to the pedestal the light was on.

At the end of the game the head ref approached me and I described the above. We were accessed a 50 point penalty but we had lost and didn't change the outcome of the match. Without proof I couldn't contest it.

Our human player is special education, so I started to doubt having him as the human player. I felt bad about this because in a later match, I watched him, he would NOT touch the ball until the pedestal lit. He is a great human player.

In a later match (not us) there was a field fault because that same pedestal light did not turn off. My theory is that in our match, once the first ball was taken, another ball was placed on it while it was still lit, but I can not prove it.

That happened to us in a match as well. Luckily we where not penalized for it. It was near the end of one of our early matches noticed that suddenly we had two balls on the field. After the match talked with the drive team and the human player said that a ball was on the pedestal and it was lit so he put it onto the field. Noticed later in the event that the volunteers would not put the ball onto the pedestal until after the light went out. I think there was a little talk about it after that match.