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Originally Posted by lynca
The GDC will improve the overall game by allowing ONLY 1 team from each alliance to touch the cans
(restriction only in the autonomous period)
The design fundamentals are still similar with only 1 robot pulling Cans in Autonomous. The only real design difference is the ability to pick up 2 or 4 cans.
However, teams don't have to spend the entire season up to champs trying to get 0.1 second faster. Instead, teams might spend more time trying to get all 4 cans. It keeps the competition from turning into a throwback mini-bot race.
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No limiting it to one team makes it worse. The arms race to 2 cans is manageable by far more teams than the arms race to 4 cans. If they dramatically change the rules like that they would have needed to do so at the beginning of the seaosn. A rule change like that changes the value of a lot of designs. Limiting to 1 team would put the most crucial part of the game in the hands of just a few capable team. The 2 can race as it stands should be doable by a far greater number of teams. Also remember that the GDC has given the placement advantage to the lower seeded team in eliminations. In my view their goal is for most matches to be a 5 RC vs 5 RC battle and everything may be decided by the upside down totes, totes on the step, and the noodles.