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Originally Posted by DampRobot
I agree with you, but not because of the links you posted. The first has a lot of general uses, and is probbably the result of some stock room cleaning rather than to aid us in the game. He second has almost no conceivable connection with lifting something. It's basically a fancy form of shaft coupling.
Why do I believe that it will be a lifting style endgame? Because it appears as if the GDC uses the FTC endgame to test out FRC endgames (probbably in order to promote collablration between FTC and FRC teams). Take last year for example: we saw ramps being balanced. Saw that in the 2011 FTC endgame. The lifting the crates for bonus points was a huge crowd pleaser in 2012 FTC, and the GDC has done similar things for FRC the past. I'm guessing a return of the 2007 style lifting of other robots.
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That's a really interesting theory. In terms of actual collaboration, so far I don't think we've seen any great implementations of FRC-FTC collaboration - the minibots were "supposed" to promote this, but we all know that the best minibots were super-minimalistic and didn't draw much on FTC.
I was just watching some Rack 'n Roll videos the other day...man, lifting robots is so cool, I'd be excited to have that borught back!