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Originally Posted by Oblarg
This really needs to be repeated until FIRST acknowledges it - the pyramid was a prohibitively difficult field piece to simulate accurately, and it added another hurdle for teams of limited means. Every field piece should be easy to simulate accurately for testing purposes.
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And if you'll notice, not a single 30 point climber was in the Finals on Einstein. Expanding it to division champions, only one team, 1640 Sa-BOT-age, was a 30 point climber. FIRST may dictate what point values are assigned in a game, but
teams dictate what is the most effective method for scoring. a team's analysis of risk/reward for scoring dictates what's most effective for them to accomplish. Building a full scale pyramid is hard and it takes up a lot of space and have ideas on how we would re-do it if another challenge like it arises.
Point is, you don't necessarily have to build every single feature to build an effective robot. Listen to Karthik's conferences and monetary barriers cease to exist.