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Re: Catapulting minibot
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Please, PLEASE don't make design decisions on what you assume the rules meant to be. The Manual is the Manual. Follow the rules, but don't assume FIRST had one robot design in mind.
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It's not a design decision so much as a development strategy - if it's reasonably likely that a certain approach to a game task despite its seeming innate superiority and comparative simplicity to the alternatives will be deemed illegal, then it's good strategy to plan on designing an alternative so that you're not stranded without a mechanism if the rules are changed (or in this case clarified, as arguments can and have already been made that the wording of "positioning" already rules out launchers).
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