Thread: New FIRST Ruling -Wow the implications
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Unread 04-02-2002, 12:30
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Regional Advantage
This ruling affects everyone adversely, especially those who go to multiple regionals. Not because teams that go to multiple regionals will no longer have enough time to redesign their robot, but because teams that go to multiple regionals increase their likelihood that a major subsystem will fail. If after every regional you had 3 extra days to repair and replace damaged components, this would not be an issue. Now, if my team goes to 3 regionals, there is a chance that we will be forced to simply watch our human player shoot during the second and third regionals due to an unforeseen failure that could not quickly be repaired.

However, it is interesting to note that this ruling offsets the imbalance of Nationals qualifying points awarded during each regional for those going to multiple regionals.