Mentors Not Reading Rules

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

We learned several years ago that if you don't sit down with everyone at the very beginning of the year and read the rules together, there will always be some people who never read them. The only way to make sure everyone is on the same page is to read the rules as a team, immediately following Kickoff. It segues well into a strategy and scoring discussion anyway.

What he said. Its the most boring two hours ever, but its incredibly worth it.
Alternatives involve grouping up and having each group read an entire section and then report the rules to everyone else in some sort of condensed but accurate way.

And obviously the team doesn't need to read the whole manual, just the arena and game sections, as well as any game-specific/changed robot rules.

The members who care will read the manual again in their free-time (as they should) but now hopefully everyone has a reasonably accurate understanding of the rules and won't spend build time arguing for/concentrating on something that's illegal*.

(This is not particularly helpful for your current situation)


*unless there is a grey area for troll-bots to squeeze under.