pic: More MM06 Field Shots

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Tim Arnold

One thing in this picture that I don't think was emphasized enough in the my thank-you posts: WildStang's awesomeness in providing support for our webcast. (At one point, we joked that the slide on the big screen should be changed to "Webcast courtesy of WildStang...no wonder they won Chairman's!" )

You can also barely make out the zip ties on the posts of the corner goal, near the top. That's how we held the new goalposts into place; they expanded further once they reached the top of the player station wall. Very trick.

Oh, and a word on how we got the drop lights to work. Turns out that the plugs on the drop lights accept a standard computer power cable. So all of the drop lights and all of the OI AC adapters we used (remember, no Hatch field controllers in sight on this field) were plugged into a surge strip at the scoring table. Before a match, the lights would be on, and robots were enabled. (This made the three-foot line especially important; it's also why 233's ball collector was running during introductions.) At the end of the match, the scorekeeper would flip the switch on that surge strip, and the lights would go out and the robots would be disabled (no data, after all). I'm sure there's better ways to go about it, but I trusted it enough to be on the carpet for a lot of the day.