26-08-2015, 08:05
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Re: FRC Field in FLL Game Manual
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Originally Posted by EricH
Missed at least one: 2009 had gray carpet. Admittedly, it's easy to miss, but the border of the field--1' or so, as I recall--was gray carpet (this to enable escaping from pins); the carpet was laid out and then the FRP was unrolled on top and secured.
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It's a nuance, but I suspect the GDC implemented the 1' carpeted 'field border' in 2009 more to provide some friction so robots were less likely to slide into the field walls at 6+ fps all the time.
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