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Originally Posted by mechlectrician7
but [i] have a feeling NURC is why FRC is staying away from it....that and the liability 
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I don't think it's a competition thing, FIRST just realizes that a water game is so incredibly impractical. The first obstacle that is impossible to tackle is the field. If robots will be submerged or even swimming, you're going to need a water-tight swimming pool of sorts, which will be so difficult to assemble (as you can't cart the whole thing into most venues, let alone store it. Then there's the issue of getting enough clean, fresh water. Areas like Cali and Israel would no doubt have to spend huge bucks to get that much fresh water; salt water, despite being readily available, would ruin robots.
If you could somehow get past the fact that the field isn't obtainable in the slightest (or if water was merely a game element instead of the field), robots would be pretty much impossible to build. To water-tight electrical boards and components would be so difficult. Veteran teams could probably do it, but rookies would be screwed. A game has to be easy enough for a rookie to actually get
on the field, which a water game prevents right off the bat. Plus if you need to access your electrical system at all, you'd have to reseal the whole thing. And if somebody messed up, that would be disastrous for the robot and potentially a person.
(I wasn't trying to rip on you specifically, just wanted to point out why a water game is a
definite no as opposed to a "well maybe in the future, right???" kinda thing)