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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott
I beg to differ. We couldn't pick pieces up from the floor in 2006 and did pretty well for ourselves.
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Team 25 had an awesome robot in 2006. Their robot's success formed a large part of our decision not to bother to pick up from the floor this year. I still believe a good 30 point climber, executed correctly, is a lot more advantageous than a floor pickup.
It's really too bad that the GDC chose to change rules this drastically this late in the game. I really have a hard time believing that they didn't even think that human players would try to throw game pieces when they were allowed to. Teams with a floor pickup have every right to be upset. They would do well to remember though that there will be other frisbees on the ground...
Looking on the bright side, I foresaw a lot of robots would be crippled due to driving over frisbees in the last 30 seconds of the game. This should make it less of a problem.