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Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence
Colour me unimpressed. I feel bad for the teams who built floor loading mechanisms. How could they not have seen this?
They should have enclosed the field more. End of story.
I hope this is fixed very very soon. If not, I know exactly what kind of robot will win a world championship this year.
-Nick
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I don't know about other teams, but when deciding to do floor loading, "endgame flood" was just an additional benefit and not a major drive behind the design decision to floor load. No matter what, I think the floor will be fairly crowded due to missed shots. Maybe sometime tomorrow I'll do some math, but as of now, I'm just plain tired from build season. Also, while watching the stream of Suffield Shakedown, I think I saw plenty of discs upside down from HP throws, a contrast to most shot discs landing right side up.
And, looking at a video posted from Suffield Shakedown, I think this is definitely a good decision on the GDC's part, to at least in some way limit how much can be thrown in the last 30 seconds. There is most definitely a safety risk involved, and arguably can be seen as a distraction to the audience...
Now, when a thrown disc knocks down the alliance's own robot from climbing...that'll be something...