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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56
You're correct, all of the teams who chose to forgo the added engineering challenge of designing an effective floor pickup correctly predicted the GDC making yet another late season game change.
In the future I will encourage my team to always choose the simpler path so we hopefully won't be effected by these last minute game changers. Lesson learned.
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The sarcasm is strong in this one. (Please don't stop building complex and awesome robots.)
I'm pretty sure the GDC was able to predict the blizzard. You just have to go back to the past 2 years and see how a flurry of game pieces were always being hurled. However, I don't think they estimated the amount of force that a desperate human player imparts on the frisbee when trying to score it. The amount of force and the nature of the disc itself was a major safety hazard
Right move? I don't know. While our robot's floor pickup was going to be only used for autonomous and missed shots, I do feel somewhat wronged by the GDC for developing a floor pickup. I feel like instead of outright limiting the number of discs thrown, the GDC could've spent at least another day figuring out another way to make the game more safe, but not rule out many strategies.