Thread: Week 1 Analysis
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Re: Week 1 Analysis
I can't be the only one that hearkens from the olden days of FRC (my rookie year was 2003). I like this return to the violent defense of yesteryear. Intentionally breaking robots should still be a no-no.

I took one look at this years game and immediately knew violent defense was going to be a thing, and consequently ROBOTs (and especially MECHANISMs that extend beyond the FRAME PERIMETER) would need to be built to withstand a beating. With BUMPERs nowadays though, you don't see nearly as much in the way of bent frames like you used to back in 03/04.

4343 ran an AM14U kit chassis with some added stiffening measures through 14 matches of rough play this weekend at GTRW and it seems to have held up just fine.

I suspect many of the elites tested the robustness of their intakes by crashing their Ultimate Ascent bot (or another past robot) into it at full speed. I haven't seen any of the stronger teams have an intake I would consider 'fragile'.
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