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Originally Posted by Dr Theta
I personally believe that the use of spherical objects in first comes out of necessity. They are readily available and rather easy to build an easily followable and captivating game around. [...] Also the robot size limitations should shrink, but the robots would once again be allowed into an orientation not necessarily contained in the bumper zone.
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I'm going to disagree with your first point. In 2003, teams had no trouble finding the game object in sufficient quantities for two teams to set up a field between them. (Keeping the Sterilite containers intact, however, was another story. We had about 30 at Kickoff, and about 3 after the season.) Same sort of thing in 2007 (and 1997, too, I think). The only other two games with non-spherical game objects that I can remember, 2005 and 1999, the teams got plans from FIRST and had to build their own.
I'm with you on the out-of-bumper perimeter spec. I don't know about the size shrinking (it's hard enough to fit everything as it is), but I'd like to see the multiple size/weight classes return.
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2003-2007: FRC0330 BeachBots
2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons
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