Event Predictions

[Koko Ed]

Not quite a Car Knack thang but sorta.
Things I expect to see at the 8 event I go to this season:

I expect to see a half dozen to a dozen robot have their day ended from a topple from the third level to the floor. I am actually planning ahead for this and will have eight backups on standby to prepare for this. Last year I went through alot of robots (with Alamo having to go to five backups. Though to be fair a couple of them packed up and left) and the bridge wasn't nowhere as brutal as the pyramid can be.

Unfortunately I expect to see either a volunteer, member of a robot drives team or most likely a guest get severely injured by a game piece. I have seen several people get hit by game pieces over the years and mostly its pretty benign when it happens. Poof balls and inner tubes don't really hurt (and I've seen a ref take a point blank shot to the face with a soccer ball hard enough to knock his glasses off but he was relatively unhurt). In fact I think FIRST should give serious consideration to limiting VIP access to the field due to the amount of danger from the flying disc and how far too often the VIP are a little too loose with how aware they are when they are at the field (they should keep their kids strictly under control when they bring them out the field. We had one kid in DC make a run for the field during the elims right when a robot was coming right to where he was racing to and had to be grabbed by a volunteer. The mom just stood there and watched him go. Not cool). Can't have that this year or someone could end up needing stiches.

I expect to see a TON of G35 penalties. There are teams who don't read the rules in the first place and they certainly don't read up on the updates and many (far far too many) human players are poorly trained because teams underestimate how important a properly functioning human player is to the efficient operation of the drives team.