[EricH]

Originally Posted by Duffy509

Maybe Dave is trying to give us a hint that Dozer and bots of that type are ineffective in this years game. I would find it odd for FIRST to switch animation styles when the community enjoys them and they are efficient at explaining the game.

I would find it EXTREMELY out of FIRST's character for robots of Dozer's class to have no role at all.

Dozer is generally regarded as the BLT/BoxBot class of robots. These are your very low-resource* teams who have a tough time building a basic robot--FIRST always attempts to have something that they can do to be a positive contribution to an alliance. Always.

If that has changed, then there is probably going to be a sudden shrinkage in FRC next year...



*I'm counting organization as a resource, along with funding and mentorship and parts.