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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
Ok guys. We're taking a breather for now.
2:25pm EDT: Reopened. Please take extra care with your posts.
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I've been waiting for this.
So instead of jumping to video review I think the FIRST needs to make the fields smarter overall. If they moved the burden of decisions away from Ref's I would think most people would be happy. Adding moar sensors to the field and having the field keep track and the refs verify would make for a more accurate game overall, however this is a slow, expensive process. For a video system IMO the most perfect awesome amazing thingy would be SOLOSHOT. Its a camera, a smart tripod, and a tracking device which has the tripod constantly aim the camera at the tracking device. The issue is one of these setups could cost over $500 and you would need one per robot MINIMUM. This is $3,000 dollars added onto pricing which is a lot for a system that might not even be necessary.
FIRST should always be moving to improve games and how they are run, but the last thing I want to see them do is implement an expensive solution to a problem only for it to not work or even generate more problems. Instead of jumping to the biggest change maybe we should implement more little changes to quality of life.
Big thanks for crowd control though!