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Originally Posted by AmyPrib
why not make them a little larger for the field side?
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Because many teams met the design requirement and it simply is not fair to change the requirements after ship. If teams are having problems meeting the requirement thus getting penalized, they might want to consider using the human player side where FIRST changed the requirements a few hours before ship.
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Originally Posted by AmyPrib
Would it be a detrimental impact to the game and rules if they made it 40", or 42", or even 46"?
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Only a detriment to those who met the design requirement ... not for those who ignored the requirement knowing that FIRST could be "convinced" to change the rules which they already have on the human player side from "feedback".
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Originally Posted by AmyPrib
and they allow the obvious straddling position,
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FIRST does allow straddling if you have enough weight margin to put 40 wire ties on your robot.
In reality, the game would have been much more exciting and audience friendly if FIRST would have kept the "load bearing" rule instead of the "please put wire ties on the perimeter of your base" rule, simply because more people would be heading to the human player for tetras instead of the log-jam that will be created as FIRST makes being in the auto-loading zone easier. With that said, the human player will still be a key part of the game merely because of the congestion on the field.
If you can't meet the requirements, change 'em,
Lucien