2004 Pennsylvania Robot Challenge (PARC)

[petek]

Originally Posted by tb222

coming from a Championship Field Crew person, it really bothered me that the FIRST crew were allowed to push the balls into the corrals (true, it was only practice ounds, but still!!!), since i'm a resetter @ PARC as well, I will see to it that this does not happen now, if teams feel they want to let their human players practice, i see no reason why A team member assists in gathering balls, as long as they stay away from the moving robots, again, practice rounds only of course, and as dave said ALL FIRST RULES APPLY. see you in 4 days!!!

I found it disturbing that FIRST chose to ignore the potential for injury in allowing people to be on the playing field while robots were in action during practice. Personally, I would rather stay well clear of these beasts. Visions of the Firebirds vs. the drivers station at Drexel last year come to mind (remember that MOE?). Two horsepower robots moving at 8-10 ft/sec with metal arms sticking out & nice, soft people do not sound like a good combination to me.

Now, if you gave the person a red cape to wave...