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Originally Posted by Mike Norton
I know FIRST wanted to see robots score a lot this year. But they should of made this rule earlier. Don't change the rules part way through the competition.
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Mike,
I think its important to remember the purpose behind the FIRST Robotics Competition is not to find the best robot. The big picture is the experience that all the competitors take away with them in preparing for the competition and every time they leave a Regional or the Championship.
That said, I don't see any problems in changing rules every week if necessary in order to make each successive week a better experience for all involved. (As long as the rule changes are not significant enough to invalidate any team's overall design.)
Since all teams competing in a given week or a given Regional are playing to the same set of published rules, the rule changes don't really have the potential of hurting anything.
Aidan