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Originally Posted by Chris is me
This is an awful update. In an over zealous zeal to stop teams from getting parts out of a trailer outside the venue (the horror!), FIRST has now made it illegal to forget robot parts. That's right, if every part you need isn't there the minute you load in, you're screwed. No having your Friday team being in things. No having your Chairman's team bring props only on presentation day, as a non trivial number of chairmans props are now part of the withholding allowance! I sure do hope we didn't forget anything, and that no team at the regional needs a part we didn't already plan to bring. This is yet another joke in a season full of asinine rulings. The GDC is painfully out of touch and I'm just about sick of it.
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First off, I do agree with you to a point. I don't think this interpretation is a positive thing for this season or the competition as a whole. I'd like to see the return of functionally identical parts at the very least.
That being said:
I'm not one to say this much, but seriously, get a hold of yourself.
I say this as someone who disagrees with the current rules regarding spare parts, but there are significantly larger steps back they could have made, and this update helps solve the problems that made Arkansas so contentious, and clarifies a rule that was very much confusing. There are far worse things they can do than limit what we can bring in.
Outside of that, I really don't understand why not being able to bring parts in for Chairman's is a contentious thing-- there are a million things you can do in a Chairman's Presentation that have absolutely nothing to do with your robot parts. It's a very minor constraint compared to having five minutes for the presentation.
Lastly, I would have to disagree completely with this season being "full of asinine rulings"-- the vast majority of rule updates this season have made the game significantly more playable, reducing penalties and overall frustration of the game (the lexan on the goals). The GDC is quite clearly trying to improve this game and bring it closer to their vision of an exciting, cooperative game that meets their expectations (which I can almost guarantee are higher than any of ours). To accuse the GDC of being out of touch is to ignore all of the positive rule updates that have been released thus-far, and frankly I find that to be insulting and immature, whoever it's coming from.
Yes, the GDC is to "blame" for all of the issues with this year's game (and I am most definitely not saying that this year's game is flawless), but they are just as, if not more invested in making FIRST and Aerial Assist a success as we are. Remember that this game is a product of months or years of work on their part, and this isn't some small, local event they're putting on. Understandably we get invested in our robots-- does anyone really think the GDC feels any differently about their game?