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Re: Team Update 1 Posted

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
The two boilers are giant fuel hoppers and the GDC has designed a system to remove ALL fuels from these hoppers at a rate of 5 per second. In a controlled enough fashion to accurately count them. I guarantee you there are teams that would LOVE to have details of this design so they can iterate on it and shave weeks off their design time.
And then there's the majority of us who just want to make sure we're practicing in as close to real conditions as possible and want to make sure we know how the sorter/counter affects that.

I'm pretty sure this is FIRST signaling they're not confident their design works yet and they don't want a ton of people complaining when they build said design and it isn't robust.
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