pic: Crowd watching the finals

[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

you are correct there was one extra person in the drivers station. since there were 4 teams on each alliance if the alliance captian team was not playing an extra coach was allowed. Similar to the standard FIRST rules for replacement robots during the torument.

I was the extra person in the players station since 2775 decided to put our very capable 4th robot (148) in the game instead. This was cleared with Stu before the 2nd match.

OK, thanks, Greg. However, I received a warning for almost stepping into the alliance box in our second semi-final match (Team 222 had substituted for 980). I wonder if all of the ref's were aware of rule <T21>.

What's different about IRI and official FIRST events is once a backup team is brought in, the team that went out stays out. IRI allows teams to mix/match robots alliance members, etc. in any of the elimination matches.