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Re: 2006 Official Game Hint Discussion

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Originally Posted by Nuttyman54
I don't think so... If a robot "sees" wrong, that's a ball in the audience. Also, in the past the rule has been no untethered projectiles, and tethered ones had to stay under 1.5m/s. They have a good reason for this (safety) so i don't think they'll be changing it unless they enclose the entire field in Lexan...which is not only REALLY expensive, but it makes viewing harder too...although i suppose they could use mailboxes for that (viewing might be a problem tho)
Going back to the football theme, in football games, teams going for a field goal have to kick the football between the goal posts. But what's there to stop that football from going into the audience and potentially hitting someone? A net. It can't be that expensive to hang some cheap netting around the field to stop stray footballs, can it?

Maybe this is all just wishful thinking, since I've always wanted to have the robot throw/shoot scoring objects into the goals, program in some ballistics calculations, targeting systems.... oh the possibilities.
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