Pedestal Delays

Originally Posted by Hoover

As for having a student go to the question box... our alliances always pulled the control boards and left the field immediately. We had 2 instances of us winning in qualification and then an upset re-score occurring minutes after. We were half way back to the pits. I don't know what to do. I'm half way leaning to have the whole darned alliance stay put, arms crossed until the final scoring happens and then go as a unit (pre-college only) to the question box to at least get an explanation. That seems rather extreme.

Actually, this is almost exactly what you need to do. If a non pre-college student comes to my question box, I immediately send them away to get a student that I can talk to. What can be done is have a student representative of each team wait behind to find the score and contest anything if they deem it necessary. To my knowledge, there is no rule preventing mentors and adults from helping take the robot off the field or grab the drivers stations.