Update 20 Released

[BoyWithCape195]

With this change, would you be able to be playing defense and push a robot through their loading zone? Or would this count as a penalty?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195

With this change, would you be able to be playing defense and push a robot through their loading zone? Or would this count as a penalty?

Just don't push your opponent anywhere near their loading zone, and then you don't even need to worry about it.

[SteveO]

There's really no reason to push them in the loading zone anyway, just try and stop them from capping. We say let them have all the tetras they want, just don't let them cap too many.

[Stephen Kowski]

There normally has been a Q & A at the drivers meeting @ Champs....I would save these quesitons for then....you'll get an official answer there most likely......

[wilshire]

I think that the number of feild attendants we have need to be more cautious and aware of what is going on around them. At chicago during the whole comp. one auto load volunteer repetedly was being smaked by the ref because he would never replace another tetra onto the loader. he would finally get the tetra on the loader when the robot had been there for a few seconds. I really don't think that the extra lexan sheets above the driver's stations are necessay because of the fact that the drivers should be good at driving if they aren't they should not be driving the robot. So really the robot should never be dangling a tetra above the player station unless being acted upon by force. I also remeber a certain finals match that isn't supposed to exist that did happen at the chicago regionals where multiple robots should have been shutdown but were not and after the match the round was well forgotten about because the refs did not shut the robots down when they needed to and they realized it after the match was over. anyways I hope that everyone will be alot more cautious at nationals.

[ahecht]

Originally Posted by wilshire

I really don't think that the extra lexan sheets above the driver's stations are necessay because of the fact that the drivers should be good at driving if they aren't they should not be driving the robot. So really the robot should never be dangling a tetra above the player station unless being acted upon by force.

In a perfect world, yes. However, many teams do not have any people who are great at driving robots. Many more teams, especially rookies, don't finish their robots in time, and end up choosing drivers without anyone on the team ever having driven a robot. Even with good drivers, robots can break and become hard to control, or your robot could be pushed by another team (perhaps one with limited visibility across the field). Tetras will, and did, get dangled, regardless of how good the drivers should be.

[AIBob]

Wow... big saftey changes...
And as usual I updated FIRSTsearch with the new update

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by mtaman02

I disagree with more field attendents at nationals, While the arena is big enough to handle the extra volunteers the field space allocated for that Division is just a lil bit bigger then the regionals. Those who are on the ground level watching the game won't be able to see the match if you add more field attendents.

There shouldn't be any team spectators on ground level, as they are all raised about 10 feet up if I remember correctly, similarly to The Reliant Stadium of Houston.