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Originally Posted by 340x4xLife
Do you think the GDC is reading what teams are planning to do? or do you think they are basing most of it on Q&A questions...
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That reminded me of something...in 2003, Truck Town built
this, and FIRST replied with
this questionable interpretation (discussed
here). It's entirely possible that FIRST issued an update that just happened to call out that robot's most unique feature, without having seen the picture...but somehow I doubt it. So it wouldn't be unprecedented that FIRST staff are reacting to a particular robot design revealed on ChiefDelphi. I just desperately want to believe that FIRST wouldn't have reacted the same way had they seen Beatty Hammond's 2002 robot before the end of the season—after all, it had a game-killing design, and it was fantastic.
The worst part of that 2003 update was the date: it was in
March, after the end of the build season.
So, in terms of the 2011 update, FIRST has done worse in the past. This time they gave the teams some time to correct the problem, and explicitly added a rule (instead of muddying the waters with a dubious reading of the rules). I'm not sure if that deserves some sort of faint praise, but either way, I wish they wouldn't do things like this.