G10, The Dallas Disable & Crickets Chirping in Manchester

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by Loose Screw

Could you explain what happened exactly? It sounds like the intent of the GDC was to allow a wide variety of robots, but they didn't want teams to delay matches when assembling their robot. I know week one events are usually slow (the event I watched was 1 1/2 hours behind at points!), but I can see the same happening with teams. As the season goes on, they'll get better at assembling their robot quickly and safely.

Prior to finals match 3 at the Dallas Regional, 987 was disabled for being too tall.

EDIT: they were also disabled in the semis for supposedly taking too long to set up, thanks Abishek R.