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Re: Ditto
Posted by Dodd Stacy, Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 4/16/99 12:45 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Ditto posted by Greg Mills on 4/16/99 9:26 AM MST:
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: Anything goes is OK if it is known and intended at the start. If that is the case why even have a 'six weeks' rule? I agree the less rules the better but everyone knows the rules as stated when we sign up. Why stop on February 22nd? If the intent is anything goes, I would have thought that we could just start in January and bring our machines to Orlando and never go through the process of locking, securing, or shipping at a certain time.
I have proposed this approach previously on the Rumors board, mostly to address the development time advantage of teams who attend multiple Regionals. Some who responded actually appreciate being told when to stop working and take a rest, if you can believe that! So I guess we all should.
: I personally like the idea of 'anything goes'....less is better as far as rules and regulations go....I just think we all need to know what is expected.
All we have to work with is the Rules in divining what FIRST intended or expected of us. I don't believe the Rules speak directly to upgrades, mods, and retrofits, whether done in the post-Regional repair time or in the downtime intervals. Maybe FIRST (to personify the organization) doesn't want to risk over-constraining the Competition and exceeding the chicken____ threshold of potential players, expecting us instead to make some interpretations for ourselves. If we try to manage the Competition outcomes by limiting one another (or asking FIRST to do so) in the amount of time or energy we can put into the machine task during downtimes, I think we just risk getting off track with a lot of sea-lawyering and hard feelings. I also think it would be a practical nightmare to enforce any kind of static configuration rules. My 2 cents.
Dodd
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