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Originally Posted by skimoose
I would disagree. The reason there are fewer varied designs in FRC now has nothing, or very very little, to do with the withholding allowance rule. The reason for fewer varied designed is the volume of game rules strangling creativity. Thinking outside the box used to be celebrated, now it is often viewed as lawyering the rules. The GDC has used the rules to force the game to be played as they envisioned it being played.
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THIS. THIS AGAIN.
I talked to a member of the VEX GDC, about de-scoring in Sack Attack. He said, if they didn't want teams to de-score, they would have designed the troughs so it was hard to de-score. The GDC could do a lot of things in the design of the field elements and point values to make the game play out like they wanted without making rules against gameplay.
A great example these rules is the 2012 side-of-bridge hook. It is not simple to design and build a lightweight, compact solution to hang off of the side bridge. IMHO, it was a very creative and elegant solution to the three-robots-on-a-bridge problem which was outlawed because the GDC didn't like that method of playing the game. If they didn't want teams to hang off the side, maybe they should have removed the side flange.