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Originally Posted by HUNT397
Looking at this year's game rules, when is FIRST going to give us detailed robot assembly instructions? It appears that FIRST is limiting on our creativity way too much, challenges are one thing but where is the line? Never before have we had so many restrictions on our robot such as wheels, playing size, trailer attachment, and now after wasted precious hours no descoring or blocking trailer. Can the FIRST GDC come up with an interesting challenge in the future without destroying competitiveness and creativity.
Chris Hunt
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A stab at what Chris was talking about, we were discussing descoring our own goal. What we found, after hours of looking at it and reading the rules, was that we could fit it into our robot. The catch? We would have given up a large percentage of the space in our robot. Who is the GDC to tell us that we can't make that tradeoff? If they wanted us to not fit it in at all they should have designed it so we absolutely couldnt do it. We designed within the rules as they stood, why should they be able to come back and say, seemingly with no explanation of why, that what we were doing was illegal?
Perhaps if the GDC would release an explanation of why they decided a rule needed clarification we would all feel a little more at ease.