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Originally Posted by Siri
Without being a marketing/ascetics expert, I have trouble formulating a rule that would satisfy both my concerns and those others have mentioned. Anyone have an idea?
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From looking at your examples of legible vs. illegible numbers on robots, it looks like we need to specify that every robot be a large box with expansive sheets of polycarbonate around the outside, so there's a convenient place to put a well designed team logo. We also need to require that every team spend sufficient effort to design such a logo, and it wouldn't hurt if they all figured out how to get sponsorship from a company that makes graphics.
I doubt that will happen.
The new rules may work ok, they may not. Figuring out where to put the numbers is going to be a challenge this year, since the way the game works kind of suggests that robots will not be made of big boxes, covered with polycarbonate panels. Instead, they will mostly be spindly frames with very little surface area, and moving parts that will make it hard to find a place to put four (roughly) 12" x 6" team number placards. Even if FIRST provides the placards, it's still going to be challenging to find or make a place to put them, as well as the team (school) name, and sponsor names.
It should be fun, we'll see what happens! The referees and scouts will probably have some fresh challenges.