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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Not to side track the thread, but why?
I think this change was absolutely brilliant, from both a spectators and coaches point of view. It beats the hell out of every other method FIRST has used (flags, LEDs, trailers, and even the awesome rotating lights). It has never been more quick or intuitive to see what robots are on what alliance
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The average spectator doesn't care about the "blue alliance" or the "red alliance" rather they care about individual robots such as the one their son/daughter built (from the perspective of a parent) or perhaps the robot they built themselves (from the perspective of a student). Already design constraints of this year's game resulted in most robots looking very similar (short boxes). With homogeneous bumpers, it makes it even harder to tell the robots apart. Just having a different number marked on the bumper is not a good way to distinguish your robot. For one, they are unreadable on web casts. Also, from back in the stands, I bet many people may have trouble reading them.
This year, you can't just look for tiedye bumpers and say, hey, that's Wildstang.