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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
And then you have to deal with the saftey issues of changing a battery mid match. You would have to stop the match or create a special lane for robots to go to get repaired/changed battery. We already know that teams aren't very good at going in lanes they're not suppose to be in...
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Yeah I saw it being done something like nascar, where there is a specific area where you can do it. all robots in the "pit" have to be disabled before you're able to enter the "pit".
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Originally Posted by EricH
Requires some additional components/weight. Could be done, though.
I'm not exactly in favor of matches going much longer. Maybe an extra 15 seconds or so, but much beyond that and we lose the "cool" factor.
I might suggest 15 second automode and 15 second end game tacked on to the end of the 2:00. Back before I started, matches were 2:00, no automode, no real endgame. In 2003, a 15-second automode was added to the start of the match.
So, instead of having the end game in the 2:00 teleop, have it right after. Put a big automation bonus in, or maybe full automode. Slightly longer match, but could be really fun to see what happens.
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Whats interesting is that FTC is almost 3 min this year. I think the game would have to be designed for a longer time (something like CTF would be interesting, if you get pinned you lose the flag logistics of which i'm not sure about
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I really find matches hard to watch if I'm not emotionally connected to one of the robots, and lets face it, the general population doesnt give a hoot who x team is. I would love to see FIRST become something the general population could develop an emotional attachment and excitement to just going to an event. However right now its just too much too fast, where as most spectator sports are actually slowed down. After a big play in football, you get an instant replay that describes what happened. It would be cool after a match to have a similar thing while we were waiting for results.
On several occasions I've gone to events just to watch, and the tend to get draining when you are not emotionally invested in the teams. You try so hard to keep up, but eventually you just give up and then it gets boring. I think part of it is also trying to distinguish teams. I wish red and blue were not allowed on the robots, and rather you had to have cathodes, that made your robot glow the color of the alliance.
Rather than cheesy fabric bumpers being the only indicator of a team's alliance.