What's Your Most Unusual Field Debris?

[carpedav000]

Wasn't there an incident back in ancient FIRST where 111 tipped and sent ball bearings everywhere?

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by carpedav000

Wasn't there an incident back in ancient FIRST where 111 tipped and sent ball bearings everywhere?

Not sure about 111, but 341's Lazy Susan busted open during Qual 40 on Curie Field in 2009, resulting in ball bearing balls all over the FRP.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Not sure about 111, but 341's Lazy Susan busted open during Qual 40 on Curie Field in 2009, resulting in ball bearing balls all over the FRP.

Yep, and 341 also did the same thing to our turret bearing in 2006 at the Chesapeake Regional as well.

Incidentally, putting a 3 foot tall, 20 lb+ assembly on top of a McMaster lazy susan bearing with no additional support is not a good idea.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Logan Byers

2014 Crossroads - Aerial Assist
A team had a baggie of lead shot that was being used as ballast inside a tube that was duct taped. The duct tape was punctured, causing the bag of lead shot to fall out onto the carpet and was ran over. Lead shot was literally everywhere on the carpet. The sound of a vacuum cleaner picking up 100s of lead shot is a very angry sound.

I recall it being more like three bags (I was on field reset and counted three baggies of shot but one or two not punctured), but this incident is also my answer to the thread's question. What a mess... that took 20 minutes to clean up. *shakes head*

Originally Posted by carpedav000

Wasn't there an incident back in ancient FIRST where 111 tipped and sent ball bearings everywhere?

No, but I talked to some mentors from 868 last weekend who recalled that their turret in 2012 did that.

I also remember a year or two ago at an official Indiana event that there was a team that every match would loose a few ball bearings. Nobody could figure out who it was, but I'm sure they were in for a surprise once the missing bearing balls became apparent

IIRC 1108 lost a go pro camera during a match at crossroads in 2014... I'm sure that made for some fun footage.

[IronicDeadBird]

Didn't a team leave a button on a tote last year and cause a whole fiasco based on it supporting the weight?

[Pretzel]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Didn't a team leave a button on a tote last year and cause a whole fiasco based on it supporting the weight?

Ah yes, the human player button that disqualified the stack because the stack was no longer "fully supported" by totes.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Didn't a team leave a button on a tote last year and cause a whole fiasco based on it supporting the weight?

Yes, a Human Player's drive team button fell off thier shirt, down the chute, past the chute door (yes, chute door), and onto the stack. *facepalm*

I can't remember which team or where it happened though

[Munchskull]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

The story was posted in another thread. Basically their intake and shooter had been destroyed in previous matches, and knowing they were about to lose, this was a last ditch effort at making a tall defense blocking robot. Tongue firmly in cheek, I would imagine. They had it re-weighed in and everything.

Yup. The robot inspector was judging us so hard. Also I hope this is not the only thing myou team will ever be remembered for.

[Maldridge422]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

Yes, a Human Player's drive team button fell off thier shirt, down the chute, past the chute door (yes, chute door), and onto the stack. *facepalm*

I can't remember which team or where it happened though

UNH District

[sdangelo]

I saw a match on a webcast recently (maybe GTRE?) where one red alliance robot had slipcover style bumpers. The red fabric got hooked on something, probably a defense, and slowly peeled off as they drove across the field until it was all laid out in a line behind them on the floor of the opposing alliance's courtyard while they sat on the batter, fully blue.

[PayneTrain]

We found our driver's station charger on the field once.

[scca229]

Originally Posted by Padava

A team last year forgot to remove ice packs that were cooling their drive motors. Drove over them and had ice pack goop on the field for the rest of finals. Didn't change anything, but had many people worried when a mysterious liquid appeared on the field.

I completely forgot about that one. This was at Arizona West where I was the FTAA. The relief was palpable when the team fessed up to what it was that we were all crowding around trying to figure out what to do.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by MikLast

You beat me to it. This match was crazy!

But the video work was awesome!! Nice job!

[Koko Ed]

In Toronto somebody left their English homework behind.
They never came back to get it either.

[Rebecca8]

In the Lake Superior Regional this year, I looked down for a second and when I looked up, a battery was a good 4 ft from the robot it had come from. No one knew what had happened.