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Originally Posted by Chris Fultz
The 120 pound limit has been modified in the recent past, with an option for a tall, light robot or a shorter, heavy robot. You had to make the trade-offs. I think you could be 5' tall and 110 pounds or 4' tall and 120 pounds - 2007 maybe.
On the three alliance point - this years player station would support that - what if one alliance had a driver station at each end of the field. The ball collection area formed a natural barrier to "separate" this drive team from the others?
And for a three phase match - what about Auto - Human - Auto? You have to set yourself up to do some autonomous task at the very end?
I could also see the GDC going to a smaller frame size. Lots of teams are getting good at 28x38 drive bases - wide or long. A change to a smaller size would force all of the veterans back to the design table to find a new, smaller system that worked.
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realistically, all a veteran team has to do is take the drive and put it in a smaller base. our team has typically done a tank style drive for most of the years. it would require no real effort to apply a "tank" system to a smaller footprint. not completely ruling out the possibility of a size reduction, just trying to point out that it really wouldnt be that hard to transition to the smaller bases