2010 Lesson Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by MikeE

Shipping 2 extra full fields to the Championships, putting them up, tearing them down, and staffing them would be a significant additional effort. Perhaps teams could also use Einstein for Thursday practice

Well, I can tell you that teams got on more than they were alloted. Like, even if we assume that there were twenty hours of practice time slots. Then three teams on per division, and hour long slots were fitted into four, 15 minute slots. So that's 20 * 4 * 3 = 240. So that's 240 slots with each team getting roughly 3?

Well, the practice fields aren't the smoothest run operations. For some reason, the coordinators are more worried about having all of the robots on the fields and running the fields in a "match" format rather than a practice field format.

Regardless, I think everyone can agree that the practice fields are hard to get. And I don't know what exactly FIRST can do, but something might be better than nothing.


Another thing that I noticed was that no matter how much we yelled "ROBOT", people would not move. One time, we were walking toward a mass of people, Yelling "Robot", and they would not move. It wasn't until I was almost right at them that they jumped back with surprise. I'm not going for the safety award, I'm just trying to get my robot from the pit to the field without hurting anyone.

- Sunny