Astronomically High Scores at Silicon Valley

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by JB987

Actually not accurate to state all other competitions have had the starting configuration set up allowed prior to reaching the field. At the LVR, we could NOT do so as the head referee decided to adhere to the letter of the rule...though as a member of the planning committee I tried to talk him into the "relaxation" of the rule since so many events had reported doing so in prior weeks. It was decided that we would wait and see if we were having trouble maintaining a reasonable cycle time. As it turned out we managed to stay on time and stayed within the rule. The question now is what will the practice be at Champs? It would be nice if FIRST would address this issue and all of us enter the event with the same expectations.

Same, at Utah we were required to enter the field in transport configuration, then after the match, go back into transport on the field, or sometimes in a rush you were allowed to do so immediately off the field. At Lone Star we weren't required to go into transport if it was safe to configure in the queue.