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Unread 02-04-2007, 16:23
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Re: Rough Play in Rack N Roll

My mentor made the point that FRC is (loosely) based off of sports, although
FRC is lacking many of the things that mainstream sports do.

So, looking at the mainstream sports, like basketball, the players are protected when they are on the field. It is against the rules to make contact with another player while they are shooting a basket.

Or football, for instance. There are many different rules set up to protect players, like face masking, roughing the kicker, unnecessary roughness, etc. The list goes on (well, except maybe ultimate fighting or rugby... those don't seem to have many rules).

Really, compared to last year, this year has a few more rules protecting robots, and FIRST seems to get better and better about rules protecting robots. From '05 to '06, wedges were disallowed, and bumpers were introduced. From '06 to present, yellow cards were introduced, and ramming was more clearly defined.

Whatever FIRST lacks in rules protecting robots really should be made up for by GP. Yes, its allowed to play defense on a robot, but how much is too much? What I would like to see happen are teams recognizing that the best defense is a good offense, and begin designing their robots accordingly.
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