[FRC Blog] FRC Expands Regionals to Four Days

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

I agree with libby on unloading. As for practice fields, I do feel that something like requiring a full inspection prior to being allowed to play on the practice field the first day of comp should be implemented. Touching on a similar issue, anyone else got yelled at by volunteers for having a pit crew during eliminations? If an issue like this occurs, I wonder how something like setting up pits would be handled. Would we still see volunteers not knowing about certain rules, and affecting teams in the process?

Where did the pit crew incident occur? Orlando allows a small pit and pit crew behind the curtain, but South Florida just has teams use their normal pit since they're already so close to the field... and i believe that's a regional to regional decision.

Edit: I just looked it up and it seems that it's not a regional decision, but a manual enforced rule that teams may have up to three 'pit crew' members (5.4.5). Doesn't exactly define the parameters of where/what those members can do, but it seems I was mistaken. Sorry!