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Originally Posted by xzvrw2
I think that if you need bumpers to save your robot, you need to go back and re-engineer your 'bot to be able to withstand the illegal ramming that went on all year this year.
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Or you could use the bummers, as allowed, as part of your engineering assumptions and use them to your advantage, allowing for a different frame. They weren't just foam - there was one heck of a chuck of wood there too, that could be used for stiffening - and it was FREE in the weight budget.
I like the bummers - why? Because they allow more "robot interaction". So? People don't want to watch co-operation FIRST or Triple Play (And I loved Triple play) - a bunch of robots doing a task mostly un-bothered. No one is going to watch offence alone. If basketball was offence alone, then it would be an NBA version of HORSE. Football would just be a game of catch. And baseball would be a grand slam challenge. NASCAR would only be time trials. And as a Michigander, I don't even want to know what Hockey would become.
All that's from a team that was an offence bot this year. (In theory)