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Originally Posted by EricH
I would be highly interested in a little challenge. I don't know if it can be pulled off, but...
Any Ri3D robots that remain functional (and give-or-take unmodified--modify to be "legal", for a given offseason's value of "legal", but without further iteration) get entered into one or more offseason events, either as pre-rookie robots or as second robots or as "house" robots.
I think you can see where this is going...
The challenge is to see how an Ri3D robot would end up in a competition environment. Obviously it wouldn't be a good idea to do that at an official competition event, but at an offseason you can get away with a lot of stuff. If they all end up at the bottom of the stack, then there's a pretty good argument that they're not as "upsetting the system" as anybody thinks. If they end up at the top, then the argument goes the other way. My guess is they'll end up in the middle: above the BLT-types and below the iterated robots.
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This is actually how FRC 5829, Awtybots was started. My second year on Team oRyon (2015), we gave them the robot we completed for Ri3D to compete in several off season events as a pre-rookie team.
Here are the results from the events we competed in as 6587:
TRI -
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015txri
RoboReboot -
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015txrb
Texas Robot Roundup -
https://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015txrr
We gave them the robot and let them make modifications on their own as a means of training and teaching them the skills they would need for the upcoming FRC season. The kids enjoyed the experience and I think the robot held it's own against some really tough competition.
