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Originally Posted by Valley Raider
With all due respect lawyering the game is exactly what FIRST does, there just not very good at it. Every year they come up with some silly rule that dies need to be their. <G22> is a rule that has decided regionals, and not because of human driving. I have seen matches lost because two robots driving in Hybrid period have run into each-other and cross a line drawing a penalty. I know some will clam that this can be prevented but the fact is this rule is nit-picky.
FIRST makes up roles for their games without thinking about the practicality of them during game play. A great example of this is the 6 foot role that originally existed in the opponents home stretch. They pulled this rule after it became clear that the most teams were not going to be able to get the second trackball down. I say most because my team had a plan with in the rules for getting it down that would have work. This rule didn't need to be removed but it was because it offered nothing to the game.
<G22> is a rule that doesn't nothing to help the game. You already can't play defense for longer then 6 seconds. Tell me what does a team gain from driving backwards, nothing so why does this role need to be in place? Lawyering around the roles is part of the game and if someone can come up with a good way of getting around a pointless rule then good for the its time well spent.
Plus when your Robots in a crate there not much you can do to learn how to drive it better.
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I dont get how you can say this. It has a huge impact on the game, and what makes you think it isnt what the GDC wanted. Just because you dont like a rule they made doesnt mean you should talk about how they dont think when they make the rules. Come on. Do you know how much work they put into making the game and the rules? I cant believe you would even say something like that. Yes they do make the rules complicated but have you ever thought of why they do it that way? On kickoff day they are going to have 10s of thousands of people reading the rules trying to find some advantages. Do you really think they could go through all that without someone finding a problem with the rules?
Please concentrate a little more when you type please, you are missing words in some sentences, and others just plain dont make sence. please keep that in mind for future posts.
Joey