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Unread 02-03-2016, 07:53
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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
Please do give up at finding loopholes.
No. Absolutely not. Never. The day we do is the day we've stopped being the Zebracorns.

Every year we (900) sit around and read the rules after Kickoff and then we write up our goals on the board, like a lot of teams probably do... Unlike a lot of teams, one of those goals is always "break the game".

I don't expect everyone to understand that concept or why it is important but it's something we always set out to do... be that by throwing a ball 50 feet, or by building a new robot at an event, or by working with machine learning like cascade classifiers to detect the undetectable, we have a specific goal to do it. It's part of our team's culture and is as unique as our pants.

Those who keep saying that we've violated the "spirit of FIRST" or the "spirit of the rules" are forgetting that this is an engineering sport and it's not tiddlywinks.
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