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If FIRST had established a "standard carpet damage test" at the beginning of the season (which I wish they had) I would support it. Halfway through the season I'm not in favor of adding new test/requirements. Quite frankly I think FIRST should have either come up with a standard test or made the field carpet much easier to replace. The fact is the carpet often gets damaged from parts of the robot nobody ever intended to touch the carpet. Repairing the carpet during the day and replacing it every night would make everbody alot less sensitive to the damage issue.
I agree in the future first needs to define standard tests to establish objective ways to evaluate their subjective rules (carpet damage, entanglement etc.) I hope in the future they don't repeat the nebulous requirements put on this year's bots. It really gives teams that are willing to push the rules an advantage since I don't see many teams being asked to redesign things. But this is another thread I guess.
James
Engineer/Coach
Team 180 SPAM
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