[EricH]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Why release something at the base of the pole when you can release it at 18 inches? IMO this should be built into the universal one.

1) Who said anything about how high the platform would go?
2) 18" for the top of the minibot or for the platform? It might make a big difference...

As for who is going to benefit from a standard, it could be rookies who just need a little bit of a push, it could be teams with lots of spares, or it could be teams with a couple pounds and no minibot who slap one on and borrow a minibot and win a match or two. If there's an approximate standard, and teams build minibots for that approximate standard, then it's a lot easier to say, "Oh, let's add standard X to the robot and watch it work" than to say, "let's build a minibot deployer so that we can try and borrow someone's until ours works".