[Mike Betts]

Joe,

I wholeheartedly agree. It's been three years since the Bobcat required a counterbalance spring but, when we did, it was at least two orders of magnitude larger than that at the beginning of a match...

I wonder what FIRST is thinking? We are limited to the latex tubing (and to a specific maximum length) which has always defined the upper bound of stored energy. This has worked rather well for the nine years I have been doing this...

Will they also limit any precharge in the pneumatics?

I liked it better when the engineers designed the game and rules...