Should technical mentors be allowed to help repair robots during finals?

[Brant Bowen]

Originally Posted by TimCraig

I remember being told this rule at Sacramento last year. I spent the entire time since hammering it into the club members that if they wanted to be on the drive team on the floor, they had to demonstrate a good working knowledge of the robot to be able to fix it should be be lucky enough to reach the finals.

This year I looked specifically for the rule as I also saw it not being enforced and couldn't find it. Can anyone point me to where this is written?

I looked for rules on this during the Boilermaker Regional, but couldn't find anything on it. I couldn't understand at the time why we were only allowed to have the 4 member drive team on the field when other regionals had allowed pit crew memebers to join the team.

Another concern I had at the competition was who the Alliance Captain has to be. During drafting the referee told us that the only person who could call timeouts and substitutions was the alliance captain. If the representative the team chooses is not on the drive team shouldn't he or she be allowed into the queing area to speak to the referee? At Boilermaker they wouldn't even let the Alliance Captain into the field area without a badge. Again there is no rule on any of this. I think defined rules for next year would make the elimination process much easier and smoother.

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by Brant Bowen

I looked for rules on this during the Boilermaker Regional, but couldn't find anything on it. I couldn't understand at the time why we were only allowed to have the 4 member drive team on the field when other regionals had allowed pit crew memebers to join the team.

Another concern I had at the competition was who the Alliance Captain has to be. During drafting the referee told us that the only person who could call timeouts and substitutions was the alliance captain. If the representative the team chooses is not on the drive team shouldn't he or she be allowed into the queing area to speak to the referee? At Boilermaker they wouldn't even let the Alliance Captain into the field area without a badge. Again there is no rule on any of this. I think defined rules for next year would make the elimination process much easier and smoother.

It is suggested at most regionals that it be a member of your drive team. And if for some reason this is not the case, then they suggest you transfer the bib.

[EricH]

According to Update 19, the robots will have a pit crew on field during finals. This pit crew will be three persons. No designation of students or mentors.