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Originally Posted by IKE
I personally voted for the rule is good but could be improved. I would like to see it improved. Improving it could be as simple as a really wide and better visibility tape used to mark the lane divider.
As a side note I read Lil' Laveries comment about the signalling and got very excited and started to look for flags to order until one of our team members found this rule;
T22> The only equipment that may be brought on to the field is the OPERATOR CONSOLE,
reasonable decorative items, and special clothing and/or equipment required due to a
disability. Other items, particularly those intended to provide a competitive advantage for
the ROBOCOACH, are prohibited.
Kind of sucks because I race in a couple amatuer racing series and caution and stop flags are great and valuable for partially blind corners.
To those that don't feel that a rule like that effects outcome much, tell that to a team that only lost 2 matches 1 due to a penalty by a teammate and were thus lower in the alliance selection ranking.
All this being said, we are trying to live within the current form of the rule. Unfortunately now our scouts spend a good chunk of there time seeking out penalty bots (those that regularly acquire more penalties than positive points) so that we can spend most of our strategy session giving driver's ed tips or modifying our teammates machines to steer better instead of working on scoring strategies and helping autonomous routines.
I like the intent of the rule, and with a little modification (very little) I think it coulb be a great rule.
Now to figure out how to get past rule T22.......
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<T22> is easy to "get around" ...:
1> American sign language can transfer information fairly quickly.
2> TarMac crew chief signals give excellent directional commands from a good distance.
There are many ways to "get around" <T22> without breaking any rules. And most of them work well in very noisy enviroments
