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Re: Rule G22 needs to be changed
I agree the rule has been there all along but from my 3 previous years of driver experience (year #4 this season), it is already hard enough to see across the field and deal with driving when there are robots blocking your view. I can only imagine how hard the poly carb makes this task this year. From our practice at home, it will be very hard not to cross the line that is vertical on the field when trying to get a trackball or avoiding other robots since there is very little room to maneuver in that area of the field. I watched enough of the webcasts to realize that too many matches are being decided by penalties and that something should be done. Matches should not have this many penalties. I really don't agree with assessing points in Hybrid mode since this type of task has already been hard enough from some teams. Maybe change it to "completely entering a new quadrant" or reduce the amount of penalty points assessed/limit the total number of penalty points. Or going to the old pinning count down would be a good way to go about this. You have 5 seconds to return to the right side or something. Even removing the Hybrid penalties would be nice, I can't recall ever being in a match where penalties were given in non teleoperated mode in the past 3 years of my experience.
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2008 Bedford Express Driver & Build & Design (Team) Co-Leader
2007 Bedford Express Driver & Build & Design (Team) Leader
2006 Bedford Express Driver, Build Team Member, & Board of Directors
2005 Bedford Express Rookie, Build Team Member & Robot Operator
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2008 - GLR Quarter Finalist
2007 - GLR Finalist & Boilermaker Finalist & MARC Off Season Event Winner
2006 - GLR Johnson & Johnson Sportsmanship Award & Archimedes 7th Seed Quarter Finalist
2005 - GLR Finalist & Judges Award.
2004 - GLR Semi Finalist.
2003 - GLR/DTR Quarter Finalist & GLR/NAT'L Rookie All Star.
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