Changes to rules mid-event? Rochester Regional

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

I had a similar question about the official start of the match after DC. We also had a false start match. I asked around and it turned out in DC they were actually syncing Blair's (MC) "3-2-1-GO" with the start of the match. Thus Blair's "3-2-1-GO" was the de facto official start of the match.

Actually tone is not really "official" or synced either. Remember in previous years drivers had to go by the clock not the tone when stepping forward after auto. Since you have to wait a second to figure out if the clock is running it is a very poor indicator. Probably the best indicator (and most fair to the robots and auto programmers) is the lights on the alliance station wall. They go solid when the robots are enabled at the start of of the match. Of course blinking vs. solid is not a very clear indicator to humans.

Anyways, as long as they pick an indicator and are consistent about it is not a problem.

The false start in DC had nothing to do with any announcing. There was a field fault with one of the driver station e-stops that we thought we had cleared before starting, but quickly realized that he had not, so we killed the match and had teams reset.

I've always told teams to watch the clock for the end of autonomous and to not depend on audio cues.

Wetzel