The yellow plates are on the outside of the field, and are there to keep people from tripping. They are polyethylene (plastic) panels. I'm guessing the reason they are flat in the second game hint is because they were too lazy to actually model the curve. They have hook Velcro on the bottom, and are stuck to the carpet just by putting pressure down on them, as they bend quite easily.
2009: (yellow)
2008: (green with caution tape)
2007: (yellow)
2006: (yellow)
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Originally Posted by Karibou
Maybe they just removed that to make the objects in this image more visible? I don't know why they would decide to be THAT nice, though.
This is only my 3rd year in FRC. I've always known the field with the plastic siding. Was that nonexistent in previous years?
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2005 was the first year of using polycarbonate side panels along the entire field. Before that, the sides of the field were just the aluminum tubing with a
single wire strung in between; the only places that had polycarbonate panels were at the gates. I know this first hand, because our 2004 robot got stuck on these wires a lot.
Edit: I just noticed, that in the photo from 2004 linked to above, instead of the polyethylene plastic panels, there's diamond plate protecting the field supports. So the move to the yellow plastic was probably just to save costs.