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Re: Was Aerial Assist Better than Ultimate Ascent?

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a) Teams were encouraged not to use some of their more sophisticated mechanisms because they weren't reliable enough

b) If this type of game continues, teams will start to realize that they should not strive for lofty goals, and instead simply grab the low hanging fruit and get tons of driver practice. I know my team had a lot of people who really pushed to have a defense/assist robot, even though we were fairly confident in our ability to build a shooter. This limits teams and doesn't really help FRC get more competitive.
I honestly don't see how this is different than any other year. If your complicated mechanism isn't reliable you aren't going to want to use it any year. Last year teams built climbers and only focused on that phase of the game, did they only reach for the low hanging fruit then? Every year the bane of some of the lower tier teams is reaching too high when they don't have the resources to succeed at it.
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