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Originally Posted by Negative 9
The game does feel incomplete, but I'm not sure FIRST would go so far as to add a whole new endgame. Also, I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out yet, but the team version drawings definitely aren't as strong as the actual game element. It can't be hanging because the team drawings use wooden planks for the bottom of the truss not aluminum tubing. Unless of course they decide to change the rules AND the team version drawings.
On a different note, it wouldn't be overly difficult for a 60" robot to pop a wheelie so that part of the robot is above the lower 62" part of the truss.
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The team drawings have in the past left out perfectly viable strategies available with the real field, or been such poor facsimiles that successful teams needed to build something closer to the real field.
See:
2010 Breakaway, Team drawings used 2x4 wood for the vertical supports of the tower. If you wanted to hang from that vertical member (a la 1114 and many others), you had to build something closer to the real field.
2012 Rebound Rumble, Team drawings of the bridge resulted in a bridge that was considerably lighter, and behaved totally differently to the real bridges.
2013 Ultimate Ascent, Team drawings of the pyramid were not really realistic, especially in the corner areas. Corner climbers would have had to build a mockup closer to the real pyramid.