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Originally Posted by Joe G.
I'm equally worried about teams building drive base/bumper assemblies to the maximum allowed dimension, and then regretting this decision when they realize all the cool things they could have achieved with a smaller base that enabled over-the-bumper dropdowns. In past years, iterating in new systems was just a matter of finding the space and weight, this year there are going to be a lot of teams boxed out of improving their robots and adding features like Spectrum has because they assumed bigger=better early in the process.
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I honestly expect the opposite to happen - teams built chasses that were too small so they could do over-the-bumper stuff, expecting a huge advantage, then realizing it was more trouble than its worth and are now sad about the substantial decrease in ball capacity they traded for that decision.
3847's robot is a good example of leaving a conservative amount of space (just an inch or three) for OTB stuff, but I bet others left way more than they should have.