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Re: MAJOR TWEAKING

Posted by Andy Baker, Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/15/99 10:43 PM MST


In Reply to: MAJOR TWEAKING posted by Bill Beatty on 4/15/99 10:07 PM MST:



My personal vote would be be for the 'almost anything goes' option.

I have two reasons:

1. The machines would get better by being more effiecient, more
competitive, and more reliable. The competition would be closer
and more fierce. This would make the action on the field more
interesting. For example: Wildstang legally improved their 'hook'.
This improved design enabled them to give us all those great matches
against Chief Delphi 4. I think that was excellent and FIRST will
benefit from action like we saw in those matches.

2. Every year the game is different. 6 weeks is not only a short time
to build a robot, but is also a short time to figure out a winning
strategy for your team's robot. In Chicago, we had a basket. It
was the last thing we designed and it was pitiful. After watching
the elimination rounds, we realized that we didn't even need that
darn basket to win matches. We legally changed our concept by
removing our basket which enabled our arm to be a defensive menace.

In my opinion, both of these cases help achieve our colletive 'prime
directive': growing FIRST.

Andy B.





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