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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
Imo This should be changed.
But thats why no one cares bout my opinion
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I don't have an issue with their placement in the zone being random, as it is an interesting problem that can be handled with software, or with a clever intake design. What I dislike, is lack of consistency between competitions, and even between volunteers at an individual competition. My interpretation of the purpose of the rule when I read it was that totes would be pretty close to parallel to the drivers station, and pretty close to centered front to back in the box, and the range of placement was simply to make it easier on the field reset. I did not expect to (and have not at my competition) see grossly misaligned totes, despite it being possible by the rules.
I have the same issue with this as I did with the rack in 2007 when that was by design "Randomly" positioned after robots were set up, but before autonomous starts. While I know plenty of field reset volunteers, and I don't know of any that would try to deliberately effect the game, we are too big of an organization to believe that their can't be a bad apple in the bunch. While I love the technical challenge of randomly placed objects, I don't like the idea of relying on a person to "Randomly" place something.