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First Competition Prep Guide: Pit Etiquette, Safety Tips & Team Spirit Boost

Are you ready for your FIRST competition? Learn the ins and outs of pit etiquette, safety tips, and how to boost your team spirit. From organizing your pit area to proper sleep and nutrition, this guide covers it all. Get valuable insights on scouting other teams, interacting with judges, and creating a memorable team presence. Plus, discover the importance of SWAG giveaways for branding your team. Stay safe, prepared, and spirited for a successful competition experience!

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First Competition Prep Guide: Pit Etiquette, Safety Tips & Team Spirit Boost

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  1. Preparing for a FIRST Competition

  2. Schedule • Arrive on Wednesday evening • Allowed to deliver robot and pit

  3. What Is A Pit? • Always wear your Safety Glasses in the Pit. Safety FIRST! • The pit is a 10x10 foot area alloted to teams to work on their robot, store their tools and batteries. • Organization of items within the pit area to work on the robot between matches is important • Shelves and other organizational utilities can be very useful

  4. The Pit • Points to remember • Identify self and sponsors • Organized as an efficient workspace • Stand out • Promo and display materials • Materials for judges • Easy build/tear down and transport

  5. Acting Safely At Competition • Get Enough Sleep • Caffeine in any form is not a substitute for sleep! • Eat Properly. • Our Pit needs to be clean and tid! Everythinghasa place. Put things away when you are done using them. • Teams are allowed only 5 people In the pit at any given time. Not ok to hang around the pit or workshop if you have nothing to do.

  6. Judges • Wear Blue Shirts • Appear early on Friday, are in the pits throughout the day and into Saturday • They are Judging our Team for many different kinds of awards, from Safety to Innovative Robot Design to how well we conduct STEM Outreach Major awards: Engineering Inspiration Chairman’s • All team members! We are experts about our team and our robot

  7. Scouting Why do we scout other teams? • To know your opponents or alliance partners strengths and weaknesses • For eliminations/playoffs – we need to know who would be best partners for our robot, Pit Scouting • Gather information by speaking to other teams in their pit on Thursday Data Collection & Recording These members watch the playing field and record statistics and robot capabilities of other teams

  8. Scouting Things to consider: • Performance vs. Strategy • Qualitative vs. Quantitative • General vs. Particular • Pit vs. Match vs. Both • Number of people available to scout

  9. More About Scouting • OK to seek and use other teams’ data • Lots of info posted on Chief Delphi and on both the Red Alliance and the Blue Alliance • Prior years results do not affect this year’s • Avoid reputation scouting • Data is your friend!

  10. Pit Crew • Replace battery on robot after every match • Check battery charge levels • Check major robot mechanisms after every match • Reboot laptop every so often • Talk to Judges • Talk to the Visiting Public • Talk to other teams who are pit scouting

  11. Team Spirit! • Cheering • Apparel – we have a daily team uniform • Flags – We give our flag to the MC • Banners • Mascot • Talking with other teams Team t-shirts! • Wear them for every event

  12. SWAG • Giveaways help brand and market our team. Also known as SWAG! Can be • Buttons/pins/Bracelets/necklaces • Pens/pencils/erasers/flash drives/stickers • Calendars/mini Tape Measures • Keychains (Our Winking Keytag) • Bandanas (Roborags!) • Stratasys 3D Printed Auger Keychains • What’s your favorite giveaway?

  13. Competition Safety • Use the Buddy system • Curfew – Mrs. Purdy checks! • Cell phones • Team contacts • Never give out team member’s phone number to a non-team member • Private information is private! • Sleep • Eat • Be respectful

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