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Re: 2013 season

Well since last year had balls, this year should be non balls. FIRST seems to be favoring fairly light objects probably for safety, I'm thinking another inflatable object. (UGH! I volunteer for field set up. Inflatables are rough on the ears.) To keep game easy to comprehend for non-FIRST audience members, limit on how many objects a robot can possess/score. End game. Leaning towards ramp or endzone robot parking. We have done hanging, balancing, and minibot deployment recently. Its been a few years since there has been goal "owning" or multiplier objects, they may make a return. Kinect will probably be back again.

The wild card this year will be the changes FIRST implements to fix some of the issues revealed during the Einstein testing.
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