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Re: The Ultimate Game-Breaker Robot: 2012 Edition
One of the great things about this game is that it is so easy to explain to "non-FIRSTers: "We're shooting hoops and balancing a teeter-totter bridge."
It would be absurd to see a "troll" bot drive under a bridge at the end of a match and then have the ref/emcee explain to the audience that this bot is "balanced" on the bridge because it is "fully supported by the bridge" and "this panel under here is part of the bridge".
The examples of "game-breaking" bots in the past are all jaw-dropping robots that made the audience (and other teams) you say "WOW!" and "We thought of that, but we didn't think it was possible!" and "Brilliant!"
I don't think this is what the audience would say about "troll" bots.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox
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