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Originally Posted by Joel Glidden
Man, maybe I am out of touch. I have just come back into the game after a hiatus that started in 2005, so most of my experience is from the days before bumpers. Back then we built 'em strong and appreciated vigorous defense and counter-defense. This stuff about safe zones and fear of getting rammed by a padded robot makes it feel like FRC has been nerfed.
Jeez, does this mean have turned into the "Back in my day..." guy?
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It seems that many teams are annoyed about the lack of safe zones because they didn't predict defense as a possibility when designing the robot, leading to easily damaged robots. We have to build for the game, not change the game to erase our shortfalls. (Although the change in rules over the past few weeks have attempted to change some of it. Ie. G27)
I'm not saying the rules aren't broken this year, they are, but defense is a core aspect of this game and should have been designed for.