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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
You're missing both aspects of my point.
A) As Vikesrock mentioned, most the teams that build robots that can't withstand the punishment are the same ones that don't build bumpers until Thursday at an event when they find out they need to. They're not going to build bumpers no matter how highly suggested they are, unless they required.
B) Bumpers aren't there solely to protect your robot, but protect other things FROM your robot.
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I'm not missing your point.
I'm trying to MAKE the point of: these teams that need bumpers the most and dont build them need to learn a lesson. I know my team always analyzes what we do each year and nail down the things to improve on, if our frame required extensive repairs after many matches....
Option A: Improve the frame for next year.
Option B: Build bumpers, either thursday, for the next comp, or the next year.
The bumpers are babying them along instead of forcing them to realize issues and take corrective action.
Concerning your B) of protecting other things, the lexan panels on the field get more scratches, not exactly a big deal. Other robots yes this can be an issue, but its usually covered by the "no entangling" or protrustions that could easily damage other robots, which worked for many years. This could be worked on.
This also follows the trend of the preference many have
Less growth in quantity of teams, more growth in quality of teams.
I'd rather see a decrease in box on wheels robots and a smaller amount of total team growth, than double the amount of these robots out on the field.