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f what's being discussed here is real, it implies a rather significant change to the game one week into the design process. I thought that FIRST
said it would try not to do that again! A week of developing designs and strategies thrown out and a major increase in complexity for
spectators again?
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The possibility of negative scores has been present since day one. When they rounded up to get the stack height, if you had all your boxes in the stack and the top one was sideways, you would get a negative score.
The big change is the interpretation that the stack height would be the height from the floor of the highest box, regardless of how it was supported. I think this was inherent in the rules from day one as well, there was just some confusion in the language about how the maximum stack height would be measured.
I agree that blue robots raising bins really, really high in the red scoring zone will confuse spectators. However, this should only happen if a team is trying to "take down" an opponent. And that opponent should be prepared to defend against such a move.
Andrew, Team 356