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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
[G25] overrides the definition of balanced that is now provided. It says that if touching the bridge interfered with balancing, the bridge will be counted as balanced, no matter if it actually is balanced or not.
I agree that putting the definition of balanced into the rules in two different places is redundant, but I don't think it makes it unclear as to how the points will be awarded. It's 10, 20 or 40 for the act of balancing, depending on how many robots are balanced.
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I would tend to agree with you if the following blue box were not in the rules:
As the level of competition at the FIRST Championship is typically very different than during the competition season, the Game Design Committee will possibly alter the value of Balancing at the FIRST Championship within the range of 5 to 15 points per Robot.
In this description of some possible alteration in scoring it specifically states "within the range of 5 to 15 points
per Robot...
I think that makes it less clear...I believe that this is one case where past animations that showed how a game would be scored (at the end usually) would have shown the intent much better.
This question MUST be posed and answered in Q and A quickly because a decision on game strategy and robot design is GREATLY affected by it...
I think that there is significant ambiguity to question how the scoring would done.
The other question is about the blue box... what does 5-15 range mean?
- 15 to +15 ? or + 5 to +15? This concerns me because if the rules committee is only thinking about giving extra points for balancing (which appears to be the case because you couldn't subtract 15 points from 10 points) This is important to know ...
Obviously everyone has figured out how difficult it is for 3 full size robots to balance end to end on an 88" bridge...
Decisions have to be made quickly about whether a smaller robot in length is going to be worth the trade-offs in stability and space availability.
For example: If the bridge is REALLY worth 40 X 3 points for the balance the trade study on smaller robot size is different from a 40 point balance.
AND if we are talking about a potential 15 point push at CMP PER ROBOT
that would mean conservatively the 3 robot balance could have a value of 85 points at CMP!!! 85 points is worth more than 28 - 3 point baskets...hard to overcome...
We just need clarification quickly so we can make informed clear decisions about the points scoring so that we don't get surprised later...
thank you