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Originally Posted by pntbll1313
Wrong, please see 20089
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Just saying. In fact, in that vein, there are
plenty of bad game pieces.
I think it must have been Dave Lavery that pointed out FRC game design has more complicated and contradictory requirements than some NASA project he'd worked on. While
teams might not have known that frisbees would work, the GDC didn't pick it out of their ear and say "well, they'll figure it out". They knew, at the very least via the same way we all did by kickoff Sunday: by searching "frisbee launch" on YouTube. (They also do some prototyping themselves, though apparently they're not things we'd want on robots.) I've wanted to do football for years*, and I think we could, but the GDC would have to put serious thought into how they can interact with the bots & field.
The GDC under- and over-estimates us sometimes, but never forget they've carefully created this world. Using teams' predictions of previous games to demonstrate that teams can manage anything is a circular argument, and cuts out a lot of the work the GDC does to make them handle-able in the first place.
*Apparently Aiden, the head referee (on the GDC) has also wished this for years. There's a reason they keep saying no, but maybe next year...