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Rule change not good this far in
Posted by Chris Hibner at 03/14/2001 9:13 AM EST


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In Reply to: hmmm...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 03/13/2001 9:12 PM EST:



The rule change 2 years ago in which they allowed a 3rd partner in an alliance was fine - it didn't affect the scoring; but changing scoring rules in the middle of the season (after robots have already been designed) is a little shady.

In our brainstorming sessions, we made a conscious decision that the stretcher (at 10 pts.) is not worth the bother of designing our robot to tow it. If they change the point value in the middle of the competition, teams like ours who made hard decisions based on the rules would be hurt.

Teams make a lot of hard decisions. If the rules were different, teams might have made different decisions. I feel that any rule that influences how robots are designed should not be changed after the robots have been designed. Otherwise, some hard decisions that a team makes might be invalidated.

If FIRST wants to make this rule change, how about another one: a match ending with two goals balanced and 4 robots in the endzone get a bonus 20% score. We would love this rule. (Just kidding, this is just an example to illustrate how a rule change in the middle of the competition would make a bunch of people want to go back to the drawing board.)


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