Rookie Team impressions from Kettering

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by Dan Swando

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Seperately, the inspectors mentioned that most teams were glad for the shutdown, because though it was boring for the spectators, the pit crews used this valuable time to greatly upgrade their robots, which resulted in a more exciting competition than what would've happened otherwise. Just a point that a waste of time for some was very valuable to others.


The result of all of the penalties being called was more disciplined drivers. As the competition went on, the referees threw fewer and fewer penalties (The finals didn't have any penalties thrown). It's a learning curve that teams work through, and this group of very green teams performed spectacularly in handling the learning curve and other challanges the game presented.
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What was the up-side for the six on the field and six more in the que during the 3++ hour delay? Do you think maybe the pits should have been closed until all teams had access?

I saw just about as many infractions later on as I saw early, but not as many being called. I assumed it was because the refs had gotten too tired to catch every last one.