Is anyone else really annoyed with the pit announcer?
If its the same announcer as last year and at Houston, then nope. That guy’s awesome.
“Hey you! . . . Knock it off!”
If people won’t stop running… then nope. Not annoyed at all.
Cave Johnson here, chariots chariots!
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He needs to stop. Every single person in that place knows they are supposed to walk.
If someone’s running despite that, there’s probably a reason for it. Maybe they are late for a match, forgot something in their pit, ect. I can guarantee they couldn’t care less at that point that there’s a guy with a microphone yelling at them.
At this point he’s just encouraging people to run because it’s funny to hear how annoyed he can get.
If someone’s running have one of the hundreds of volunteers around the pits tell them to stop. I’d bet it’s a lot more effective.
In Houston he went on a mini rant. He said “if you fall and hurt yourself, it is because you were doing something wrong! You were running!”
Then he continued… “If you fall and knock out your teeth, its YOUR fault!”
I’m hoping this was a hypothetical, and not due to someone laying on the ground with a broken mouth.
I can’t believe people still hadn’t gotten the memo by day three…
I was annoyed by this all throughout Houston. Although I appreciate that he’s taking his time to volunteer, all 400 teams in the pits do not need to hear about how one person near him is running.
I also think that this is very counterproductive because most of my team ended up just tuning him out because we were all getting annoyed about hearing him yell at people for running, which means we could have missed parts requests for teams who actually used the speaker system for it’s intended purpose.
This is why I think speeding on the roadways is fine as well. People wouldn’t be driving faster than the speed limit if they didn’t have somewhere to be.
Oh that guy was funny.
I remember him yelling at someone, I paraphrase: “You in the blue shirt stop running… That does not mean run the other way… Stop Running!”
don’t worry, I’ll request zipties tomorrow, we do actually need them.
$5 to anyone running with no safety goggles on the opposite way of the robot transport path.
Not paying for any medical expenses resulting from my challenge.
I couldn’t stop laughing each time he called out someone, thankfully it was never me, because Safety FIRST.
And do it with scissors just because.
Seriously though, the announcer might be overdoing it but please try to avoid running in the pits. With power tools and large mobile robots about, it really isn’t a safe thing to do at all.
I get how someone who’s doing that over the pit PA system can be annoying. But I doubt that person is checking CD at the moment…
Has anyone tired to talk to him? Or find an VC or something and mention it to them so they talk to the guy?
Are there no UL safety people there? This seems more like an issue they should be dealing with instead of announcing it over the entire pits every time. I understand seeing a lot of it may require a pit announcement but not every time.
But then again, if people walked this wouldn’t be an issue. If the people annoyed with it would remind people to walk I’m sure that would help too.
I’m sorry, but no. No. No. In my student days I was running from the pits and collided chest-to-chest with another student and literally got the wind knocked of of me for the first time in my life. You can tell me “how important that match was” (the one you chose to be late for) after you’re done lying on the floor, unable to breathe for what seems like an eternity, while a dozen people are around you trying to help save you from your own stupid, selfish behavior. I LEARNED MY LESSON THE HARD WAY.
ALL of the “hundreds of volunteers” try to do their part to stop this stuff, but some people don’t listen. For goodness sake, I can’t tell you how many times in Houston I saw kids in full sprint come within an inch of smashing their heads into one of the blue trusses on the convention floor as they ran from the pits to the field (not to mention the ones who hurdled through them:mad: ). **If it’s that important, then you should have planned to leave early. **
I LIKED the pit announcer we had in Houston. He at least kept his call-outs entertaining, and surprisingly specific (I think he described one kid who was running all the way down to the shoelaces).
Not that I’d ever encourage running in the pits but how many people at FIRST events actually get injured from running in the pits?
Hoping this doesn’t derail into whether or not people should be running in the pits (which they should not). Should the pit admin subject the entire pit to what are likely unsafe volume levels for the mistake of one student? Probably not.
Oh that guy was funny.
I remember him yelling at someone, I paraphrase: “You in the blue shirt stop running… That does not mean run the other way… Stop Running!”
I remember that. The kid was oblivious; I remember discussing with someone the possibility that the kid may have been from an international team and didn’t understand the announcement.
I get how someone who’s doing that over the pit PA system can be annoying. But I doubt that person is checking CD at the moment…
Has anyone tired to talk to him? Or find an VC or something and mention it to them so they talk to the guy?
Didn’t talk to a VC, but I’ve put it on the survey every year since 2011.