[JesseK]

The ball is as big as the robot, +/- a few inches in one dimension or another. Adding a climbing element after week 1 (or even after 72 hours) would fundamentally change the design (and potentially the entire strategy) of any launching robot. This would essentially cut the build season short by 1 week and also potentially waste money on the teams who've actually put in much work in the first 72-168 hours of the build season. It would also reward teams who waited for 72 hours before putting in a lot of effort into breaking down the game & designing a robot.

I bet FIRST knows better than to pull shenanigans like that.

Until we see something official, this thread is really just some Nobody inciting speculation.

(edit - man, just a minute too late - durn you Sithbusters!)