[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I've actually had a casual interest in FRC (I wasn't in FLL either) before I joined a team in 2008. I recall (can't cite the rule, that part of the game manual is lost in the FIRST website) there being a rule where the poof balls, the second most nonviolent game piece in the modern era (behind moon rocks) had a set velocity limit.

Working with strategy and design for this game, I was shocked there was no velocity limit. Not only is a full court capability in range for a lot of teams, but this game piece is as rigid, if not more rigid, than the tetras, and we are allowed to whir these pieces 10 feet high and 50+ feet across. In testing videos for both 422 and 2614, you can see the frisbees being shot from at least 10 yards a way and still audibly banging into the back wall. As someone who spends a lot of their time behind the glass or at least in the field area, I'm not thrilled. As an attendee of regionals where there is about 2 feet between the stands and the field barriers, I hope they block off some rows.

It's all fun and games until we get blood spilt on the field or in the stands by a game piece. Seriously. It would not be fun after that. FIRST would quickly become not fun.

If FIRST hits the wrong person at the wrong time they could find themselves on the business end of a lawsuit.