YMTC - No battery plugged-in

[Billfred]

If what I've read here about IFI's arena controller is right (in that it won't start a match unless all bots have a good signal--well, or an override for those three-bot practice matches), then we've got a malfunction of the arena (or the controller therein).

It's kinda like the finals at Palmetto. The #8 seed didn't have their teams straight for the match and nobody caught it until they started the intros. So technically the match had started, and they could've been DQed. But the other alliance let it go out of GP. Was it the legal thing to do? No. Was it the right thing to do? Absolutely.

Redo.

[Mike Schroeder]

If anyone has ever been to a competition, using NASA's feild, Mike Wades big thing to remind people is, FIRST does not require you to plug in your battery/power up your robot its just a darn good idea

with that being said, i think that if a team has made i to the finals, then they should know better than not pluging in their battery/powering up their robot, its always going to be the teams responsiblity.


I would rule that the match stands, the team forgot and looses out

[Ryan F.]

Okay...if anyone forgets to plug their battery in, that's their own fault. You should have looked to see if everything is working before you went back to the drivers station.


--This sounds so simular to my nightmares of setting our autonomus to run on the wrong side, then picking the robot up and throwing it onto the bar