2009 Connecticut Regional

[Fred Agnir]

Originally Posted by SuperJake

I can confirm this happened. Team 126 was bumped in a corner and something happened to their robot. I think it lost connection because it seemed to come back up 30sec later. Anyway, while trying to troubleshoot the situation, the FTA stepped onto the field while the match was still running to get a better look at 126's robot. All of the other robots were on the other side of the field, but I don't think she should have been there.

I could be getting senile, but I believe you are mixing two different incidents.

Yes, we got hit in the corner in one elimination which knocked us out. I believe the hit popped our CB. We stayed dead for the duration of that match.

The other incident was a different elim match later when even though the Green Light was on to start the match, we immediately got the blinking red when Autonomous started and we remained motionless into Teleop. When TeleOp started, Sabrina (the FTA) was scrambling to our Driver Station to work her magic (unplugging, plugging, etc.). She then went sprinting to our robot which was on the other side of the field. It looked like from my vantage point that she stepped into the playing and pointed at our robot, and it sprang to life. I don't know if she actually touched anything. It looked like she was trying to see if we were actually plugged into the Game Adapter. Someone else closer could actually see if she touched the robot (which I doubt), but I believe she stepped or leaned into the field just to get a closer look.

Fred