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Re: Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
This is devastating. Our strategy was that fast floor pickup could even out not having a 30 point hang. This completely removes that idea. I understand safety concerns but why did my students just spend 6 weeks perfecting floor pickup and being able to drive around on a lot of discs. I'm just glad there seems to be a lot of full court shooters, that can replace the humans throwing.

More than anything this just killed team moral.
Yes. We made a lot of design trade offs to support floor pickup. BIG ones. Now, unless we have a 'pray and spray' teammate, we're going to be at a disadvantage having to traverse the field to get discs.

We sacrificed a high climb mechanism based on the math of a floor pickup with readily available discs, and what we could do in 30 seconds.

I'm pretty angry about this.
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