The brand new regional in California!

[troy_dietz]

Not to be a "negative Nellie" but,

If it's anything like the last fall classic, I pity the teams scheduled to compete. The only way in and out of the pits was a single door barely capable of allowing one robot to pass through, and immediately after you exit the pits, there's a sharp 90-degree turn to the left. (forming a small area just barely capable of holding 2 robots) The congestion was understandable for an off season event, but it would be ridiculous for a regional. That's not even mentioning the field. Our autonomous didn't work because the tape indicators were improperly placed and the refs wouldn't allow us to correct for it. Our robot was also beached several times because the scoring platforms were not accurate to the official drawings. The lack of chute doors, while a minor inconvenience, would have been cheap and easy to fix.
As this will be an "official" event I don't expect field inaccuracies to be an issue, but I don't see an easy way to solve the congestion issue, other than relocating the pits or cutting a massive hole in the wall.
Also: heads up, the pits were sweltering. Ambient temperatures hovered in the 90's.

Keep in mind, this is only my experience from the fall classic, it might be completely different for the regional.