Q&A 207 - PILOTS dropping LIFT handles

[Kevin Sevcik]

So best guess, what percentage of elimination matches are going to be decided by someone fumbling or accidentally kicking a lift handle? How many matches are we going to see where an alliance has zero operational lifts?

I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the thought that Einstein could be decided by this. I can't recall any recent year where a human player could effectively break such an important part of the field. What if field reset botches something and a match starts with a handle outside the port hole? There's no guarantee anywhere in the rules that they'll start inside the airship.