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The rules need to be a lot more enforced. My team spent hundreds of dollars and many hours on making a telescoping pole extender that was 25 feet long and would never touch the ground only to find out that they were now allowing "entangling" devices like tape measures to be used as an extender. We actually lost a match because the goal we were pushing got caught up on a previously illegal tape measure extender. All the rules need to be there from the start so there is no room for questioning or argument.
As for the game, Robotica on TLC was really cool. I wish that FIRST could make it more like that and not just a flat, rectangular piece or carpet. We need some ramps and small stairs and sand pits and narrow turns and other obstacles. That way, the robots with their "slammed" bodies 2mm off the ground would be useless. I'm talking big tires, 4wd, massive ground clearance and perhaps suspension. Now that would be cool.
Just please no walking bots, at least not yet. The thousands of years old wheel is still rolling strong.
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