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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
When there is a chokehold strategy that relies on getting game pieces and our mechanism is faster than your already completed and difficult to modify mechanism, the incentive would be to take the "blank slate".
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It always harder to work around existing mechanisms than to start with a blank slate. Our first FRC experience was as an FLL team working with a "rudimentary" FRC team in Rebound Rumble. After the end of the build season and the robot was in it's crate, we managed to build a minibot that was much faster than the one the teams' original one (2.5 seconds). It took all the time between matches on Thursday and part of Friday to fabricate the parts needed to install our launching mechanism because the dimensions of the robot we were given were wildly inaccurate and we were not told about certain support structures. Their manipulator was ineffective and the installation would have been far easier if the team had totally removed it. The team probably would have scored more points by discarding their manipulator, playing defense and then launching our minibot. At an offseason event, we installed the same launcher on another robot with a clear top in about an hour.