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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
The GDC often makes a lot of engineering decisions for teams via the size constraints and bumper rules. This year is no exception. Nobody wants to watch matches with potentially good robots getting beached on the Fuel spilled on the floor, so the GDC made sure everyone should be able to just push them out of the way.
I would suspect the motivation had more to do with keeping the fuel from breaking after a 150 lb robot drove over it. In many, many past years robots have gotten stuck on game pieces and the GDC didn't do anything to prevent it. Heck, just last year I saw plenty of robots driving over boulders and getting stuck, and we won't even go into the defenses...
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