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Originally Posted by Dranyam
Oh come now. There's a difference between a real life situation where there's an actual reason for a certain product to perform a certain task, and a competition where something is arbitrarily decided to clarify the rule. Knowing the way the first guys usually work, i think they would've emphasized that they'd made the rule to emulate real-life situations rather than saying it was to clarify a rule... I may be wrong. W/e, I have no doubt in my mind that that WASN'T their intention in making the rule.
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I'm not trying to justify the rule. It's obvious that the rule is not nearly as clear as it ought to be. My point is that we've been given an arbitrary set of parameters, as is often the case in industry. We have to work with what we're given. No amount of discussion about how the rules don't please us ought to change the rules, if FIRST is to emulate real life.