[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

Something tells me that minibots aren't as fun as I thought they were.

Edit: For discussion of the motors themselves, I made a thread in the Motors subforum about them:
https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s....php?p=1617079

Imagine designing a game where 20-40% of the game score can hinge on the last 15 seconds of the game. Then require the teams to use parts that none of them have in stock for their minibot in a somewhat misguided attempt to bring middle-school kids into FRC. Then act surprised when teams spend thousands and thousands of dollars developing faster and faster minibots, so the point where the fastest ones were thousandths of a second apart. Then design a system that doesn't always register when a minibot finishes, so that the entire crowd can HEAR the minibot hit the finish plate but the system never registers it. Then, ask the refs to watch and try to enforce a rule that the minibots are not crossing an imaginary starting plane ahead of time.

It was a fiasco - one that I still grumble about. You can go back and watch some of the 'fastest' minibots cross the plane well ahead of the light change using youtube slowmo. Those poor refs.