[EricH]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Get rid of category C defenses. Pretend the GDC never created it.
And for all events currently and in the future, the dumb white line in front of driver stations. I hate seeing DS's flying off the supporting platform from robots ramming the wall.

The white line is there because back when auto was introduced, people immediately started thinking of ways to control their robots in auto. (There are threads on this, I've seen a couple of them.) So the GDC at the time put that line in. The idea is that you can reach your controls if you really need to, but the refs have a chance at seeing you do so.


And, there is NOTHING preventing you from taking actions to save your controls.


For the Category C defenses, I'd go with use different defenses. They did have other defenses on the drawing boards... Anybody want to try a rolling log or a spinning table? (One of those two was on the list, if I recall the podcast on that correctly...)



With respect to the vision/shot blocking, had a team at one event I reffed at show up with an improvised blocker: a volleyball net on a PVC frame. Great, it's see-through, they passed inspection no problem. The next match they came out and it was covered with painter's tape. That got the head ref asking questions. The tape didn't appear again after that match...