Does Your Drive Team Have Any Pre-Match Rituals?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by troy_dietz

Thankfully, this doesn't happen too often, but our drive team had had their fair share of running (or power walking as fast as humanly possible) back to the pit to grab the team standard/fresh battery/3D printed camera mount/status light mount/ratchet pawl/programmer disguised with a safety captain button.

I should point out that this one doesn't work very often. Queuing tends to catch on pretty quickly.

That being said, I do recall hearing an announcement for a particular 330 programmer to go to somewhere near the field or pit back in my student days... Don't recall what about. Might have been shortly before the match where the drive team didn't quite catch that they were almost out of time in a timeout and came "speedwalking" with the robot on the cart to put it onto the field... right after the MC got the teams introduced. (Back in '04, for match 2 of a regional finals).