2008 New Jersey Regional

[Rich Kressly]

Originally Posted by Vanquish

Though it was a great regional one thing really made me mad. I watched the same few robots (not to name teams) continuously knock off the controllers of other teams, one of them even got disqualified after they knocked our teams controllers off. After that round (our robot was useless because of them) my teacher went to talk with the refs and they said that our team should have stepped forward and saved our controllers when they had not even announced that at all, but thats not the thing that makes me mad. What makes me mad is that when a controller got knocked off during the finals it was like the whole world ended, the stopped and restarted the match, but what about the 5+ other teams that lost control of their robots because of the same thing? I just don't understand.

Aside from that though, really great regional, lots of nice robots and some really cool people

<G47> states the exceptio to the rule very clearly.
"TEAM Positions During HYBRID PERIOD – During the HYBRID PERIOD, the DRIVERS and COACH must stand behind the PLAYERS LINE within their ALLIANCE ZONE. During the HYBRID PERIOD, the ROBOCOACH must stay within one of the two designated ROBOCOACH STATIONS (either local or remote). Each violation (stepping outside thedesignated area, or stepping across the PLAYERS LINE) will result in a PENALTY. Exceptions will be made in cases involving personal or OPERATOR CONSOLE safety."

While it is upsetting to have these things occur, it is in no way an intentional action, it is something teams need to be prepared for, and teams are expected to know the rules. I'm sorry there was damage to a few operator consoles.