Mentors Not Reading Rules

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

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.

And tournament. At very least the Qualification Seeding section. It never ceases to surprise me the number of folks who don't understand what you have to do to seed high.

For folks in Districts, I'd also suggest reading how you qualify for DCMP and CMP.