[waialua359]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

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.

I respectfully disagree to an extent.
From the videos posted on CD so far, none/very few if any, posted times of less than 30 seconds.
30 seconds is enough time for many teams to make 2 trips to the feeder station to unload 8 discs and hang from the 10 pointer to effectively beat the high hang.