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Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition

Yes, but the problem we are trying to solve is outlined in the game rules. The GDC never tells us to play "Rebound Rumble", they tell us to get the most Coopertition Points by wining the most matches by scoring according to the rules in the manual. I wouldn't even say there is a "Spirit of the Game" before the game is actually played- it never goes as the GDC imagines. Otherwise they would out and out tell us "Play a game like Basketball except like this..." and would make the rules supplementary. No, in FRC we play the game as handed to us in the rulebook, and evidently they completely support the emergent gameplay that results. I highly doubt they intended a 469-style bot to be created and dominate as happened in 2010, but the GDC did nothing about it. This "lawyering" of the rules nearly got 469 the Championship. In comparison, the designs and strategies suggested here seem distinctly mediocre.
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