A Warning to Human Players for safety's sake.

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At this past weekends UTC regional, there was an incident with a Tetra falling out of the field and onto a human player ending up with the human player taking a trip to the hospital..

This is a warning to all human players, especially those on the pressure pad closest to the field to watch out for falling tetra's from the corner goal nearest to you and your alliance stations wall.

What happened was, a robot was trying to stack a tetra on the goal nearest to the pressure pads side of the field on the blue side.

A human player from the blue alliance ran to give their robot safely in their human player loading zone a tetra.

While she was doing this, the opposing team's robot was attempting to remedy a misaligned tetra they stacked on the corner goal (It was hanging off in that weird way when they are tilted on the tetra goal but still on the goal yet not scored.)

The human player went to run back to the pressure pad after safely giving their robot a tetra, and the misaligned tetra fell off the tetra goal, because the robot was attempting to grab the tetra and re-stack it, and hit the HP in the shoulder and leg (I believe.) resulting in a hospital trip.

I have video, but I don't want to show it unless I OK it from the team who this happened to first.

The Human player was back in the arena later that day and she actually wanted to see the video of the accident (something I wouldn't do that soon after the incident, so I'll give her credit for that!)

So, to all Human Players, be a fast human player to play competitively, but also be aware of your surroundings at all times!!!!

I'm really not sure if this could have been prevented in this case because it happened so fast, but as I said, Be careful, and be aware of your surroundings at all times.