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Re: Thoughts on Overdrive

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler View Post
I think this is exactly wrong. The penalty is to offset the points from a hurdle and a lap, which is 10 points. If the penalty was only two points, robots could flagrantly run backwards to get a ball to score 10 points.
I wasn't suggesting to make the penalty only worth 2 points. I guess from a speed bot's perspective, it's basically taking away 5 laps, which for even the fastest teams means probably around half of your tele-operated laps meant nothing.

Penalties were too harsh this year.

One thing I liked about this year - no speed limit. I think we should keep that for future year's games, or at least up it from the usual 12 ft/s. That's going to seem exceptionally slow if FIRST brings that back.
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