[EricH]

Originally Posted by bhaidet

Has anyone here been on a team to build field parts before? Have there been any other games in memory (other than the rack) that require steel? (or did that not even use it?)

Overpass and lane dividers in 2008... Minibot poles in 2011... Towers in 2010... Ramp sides in 2006 (diamond plate on the ramp side)... 2005's goals... 2004's bar... 2003's ramp supports (the ramps were copper mesh) and limbo bars... 2001's limbo bar... the center-field structure in 2000 was piping... and most of the games in the later 90's had steel pipe structures of various sorts (exception, 1999).

In addition to the field rails, some of which may need replacing due to hard impacts...

There are a lot more uses for steel on an FRC field than there are on an FRC robot.