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Re: Discussion: Release Team Field Drawings Early
Like some of the other teams in the thread I am from a team who builds a field for a kick-off and honestly we do not get that much of an advantage over most other FRC teams. For one thing they tell us to build things but usually don't tell us how they go together until as late as possible prior to the kick off (We actually got it the night before last year). For the sake of honesty I will tell you that as of this moment we know nothing about this years game beyond what was shown in the teaser so it isn't like we start getting stuff way ahead of time.
Honestly speaking from experience being a kickoff team isn't a huge advantage because the way the game is played (atleast the last 3 years) is a mystery.
2014: Had no idea there was no end game, did not know about assists, or catching, or how many game pieces were on the field.
2015: Literally the field told you nothing, and when we got the game pieces (A garbage can and a pool noodle, since we did not know that the totes were pieces) we were more confused.
2016: We knew there would be multiple obstacles, but did not know that we HAD to cross them, or that crossing gave you points, or that crossing multiple effected your ranking. We also could only guess at the game piece based on the tower but we did not know we would be limited to only 1.
Also as an aside to anyone from FIRST who may or may not be reading this, last year we built a team version of the hanging bar for 0 reasons since we just put them on the tower anyway. When you release something like that please let kickoff teams know what is a field element and what is just a separate free standing item for testing purposes so we don't waste resources building something unnecessary.
But for the topic at hand I am all for releasing the drawings of field elements ahead of time for everyone but not releasing the full field to everyone till kickoff.
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