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Originally Posted by TJ Cawley
i'd like to see the game back to the robot limitations on size like the 2008 season of just starting size rules. the height limitations are what made it hard for teams to "think outside the box" when they had to fit inside of one.
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I've heard this complaint a lot, but not many ideas as to waht teams would do if this rule were put back into place.
The rules this year were made to minimize robot penalties. Instead of calling ramming / pinning / intentional damage / entanglement / entrapment and preventing lots of robot manipulator damage, FIRST chose to instead simply have bumpers and no expansion. I think this was to make the rules simpler; I guarantee you that the rulebook would be 10 pages longer and matches would be that harder to judge if the rules weren't there.