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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
I don't Know if there a rule reguarding this or not. But why not just have a rule that makes it legal for teams to have thier own Identification System. That the GDC can decide whether the team has to or doesn't have to use the flag. Same idea as the bumpers, you can use this thing and have this advenge by using it but you need to make it to this exact specification. That way FIRST doesn't have to pay for it and it is a standardized way of doing something.
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When you start making rules which allow teams to make up their own rules, all such rules (and rules about making rules) become irrelevant rules.
From a refereeing standpoint, you need a unified system to identify robots. Allowing teams to make up their own methods would prove overly complicate the job of refereeing. And from a judicial standpoint, I think the GDC would have better questions to answer during the build season than 1500 teams all asking them if their own system of identifying themselves is adequate.
As Dave said, all potential "solutions" have to solve all the current issues and do so better than the current choice of flags. While we may not always enjoy the flags, it's hard to beat flags when it comes to being cheap, easy to change before each match, allows for standard and easily visible robot/alliance identification, and allows for the addition of yellow flags. Unless there is a better solution for
all of those characteristics, the flag will stay.