Use Velcro on your Control Board!!

[bigbeezy]

The exact same thing happened to us in a match at Florida. they slamed the wall and our controls feel to the ground shattering our arm joystick. due to the shattered joystick our tower got stuck in the up position and we had no way of lowering it... so we were stuck in one quadrant for the entire match unable to do anything.

by the way we did have Velcro on our control board when this happened.

Now we still use the Velcro, but we also clamp our controls to the table so hopefully this will not happen again. By a shear chance of luck one of our mentors that very morning had us grab a spare joystick from our shop so that we would have a spare. The funny thing is that we had laughed at the time...