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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I'm voting against the entire field being some sort of crazy, difficult to navigate surface, be it sand, bumps, water, or a mobility denial system. All of the really difficult mobility challenges in the past 5 years were optional. Plus FIRST has gone to a lot of trouble the past several years putting out a kit-bot that guarantees everyone should have a robot capable of at least moving around the field. I can't really picture the GDC wanting to return to the heady days of rookie bots hobbling around the field getting high-centered on 2" pipes, having wheels fall off, etc. |
There was a request that went around to Northern VA teams asking for help in mentoring the new rookie teams this year. Perhaps we are moving back to that realm of thought for at least a year. Rather than thinking of it as a restrictive end for rookie teams, perhaps we could think of it as a more open-ended forum for new teams with fresh ideas?
Time to dig up those old RC helicopter drawings I have stashed away...