Game Manual - Team Update - 2014-03-11

[Nick Lawrence]

Here's a scenario that the new ruling does not consider:

A team is competing at a 3 day, standard non-district regional competition. A team unbags their robot, gets through inspection, and goes out to play their first match. In that match, the team encounters heavy defense and breaks a custom drive axle. The team made spare drive axles in advance because of this scenario. However, during inital load in, they left one tote in their trailer that happened to contain those drive axles. Can you get them? Nope, you didn't bring those axles in during initial load in. Unless they can get that part manufactured at the event, that team now has to play with an under-performing drivetrain for the rest of the event. Is it fair to punish a team for a very simple oversight like this?

-Nick


As a side note, the teams who bring a practice robot in the trailer don't violate the 45LBS rule. They don't bring in the kitchen sink, just sometimes an intake arm. Half the time, they pull parts off the robot for other teams.