Pit work during ceremonies

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

I in no way intended to be hostile toward anyone here, and I apologize that it came across that way. My objection was not to Brandon specifically. Looking back at the prior posts, it was this statement that lead to my comment:



As I've stated, there is no 'rule' that allows people to stay in the pits during ceremonies in the event that the pits happen to be closed during the ceremonies, which from actual practice and lack of rule specifics about when the pit must be 'open' seems to be up to the discretion of the event leadership.

I guess the 'people' in the above quote may be misinterpreted... Perhaps the 'people' meant to refer to those who try to close the pits (pit admin, etc.) I initially interpreted it to mean anyone and everyone (students and mentors of other teams) and encouraging them to stay in the pit during ceremonies if they wished in defiance of leadership declaring the pits closed. Again, I apologize for the confusion.

The bummer is when the official event schedule doesn't list the pits as closed, but teams are ushered out of the pits during that time.

In that case you have a rule (in the manual), and an official document from the event itself that combined make it clear, 1) The pits aren't closed, and 2) They are allowed to stay, since they aren't closed.

buuuuuuuut... then on short notice teams are told to leave the pits.

I've whined about this for years, I will be more proactive this season. For the events we register at (and any others I volunteer at), I'll bring this issue up with the RD ahead of time, and we'll go with whatever is decided and clarified obviously.