2008 New Jersey Regional

[Chaos204]

I am sorry if i offend anybody but rules or no rules i think that asking a driver to jump forward to catch their controllers is not only unreasonable, but un-gracious professional.

As the driver, those 15 seconds are the most tense of the match for me. Not only are you not in control of your machine you are trying to determine where you will be when it ends and how to continue the match based on the position of the balls. Now you need to worry if your controllers are going to be broken at the end of autonomous. I am supprised that they expect us to put our HANDS and FINGERS on the line to catch falling controllers. My robot is set up to hit the opposing fence then turn and continue but it does that per our programing and does so very gentally. If I saw this happening with any sort of regularity i would have no issue with a ref DQing any team including mine if it was with enough power to do this to a team. My alliance's controllers got knocked down several times. Many controller setup's I have seen are metal/lexan both of which are very capable of cutting and breaking digits(fingers) and when the window in front of me just got rammed by a 120lb robot barreling to me the last thing on my mind is to jump forward and grab that metal/lexan box that is now falling to the ground.
Risking my hands.