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Re: Team Update #1
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Originally Posted by Cory
minibots will now be completely and totally boring.
What's more inspiring, a 1 second minibot or waiting to see who reaches the pole first to deploy their minibot that takes 7 seconds to reach the top?
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This.
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
FIRST. You made a horrible call, you took what was potentially a good engineering design challenge, and turned it into a last ditch effort to save their inferior (to vex) FTC design competition.
It's now a challenge of who can make the SAME minibot lighter. Yay.
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And especially this.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
I know everyone is rejoicing about the 84" cylinder, but I personally loved the 60" as an actual engineering challenge.
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And this. 60" cylinder was enough space to make it a decent challenge. 84" just makes it easy.
I've done FRC for almost a decade now. These rule changes are of 2002 tether-rule in magnitude. I'm not thrilled.
It's a case of taking a challenge that is complex and engaging with multiple solutions, and dumbing it down.
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Last edited by sanddrag : 11-01-2011 at 22:10.
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