I feel its cool to talk about what you’re going to do, or plan to be able to do, but not you’re
how you’re going to do it.
So, saying: 'Our team will be able to handle all three goals, pick up 40 small balls and fork lift every bot on the field.' would be fine in my book. Probably a bit of an embellishment, but that’s perfectly legal.
Saying how you do all those things in explicit mechanical detail, would not only give away your clever design, but also possibly influence other teams ideas when they go to work out their designs. So not only do you give away your strengths and weaknesses, but you might weaken the creative process on other teams. I have no problem with a rookie team realizing that it is possible to move 3 goals, just so long as they have to figure out how to do it on their own.
No messing with the evolutionary process of a teams build. Call it the Prime Directive or something like that
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-Andy A.