Thread: Team Update #1
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Re: Team Update #1

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Originally Posted by Steve W View Post
Be honest with yourselves. Anyone who has been around fIRST and saw the launch had a 98% belief that we would not be able to launch Mini bots.
I wanted to believe!

In all seriousness, the rules as originally written had left the door so wide open for flinging a minibot (that is attached to the pole) up with some sort of HOSTBOT mechanism that I was almost convinced it was on purpose. Within seconds of seeing the minibot race, our team was already talking about ways to fire a "minibox" up in under a second, so I had a hard time believing that nobody on the GDC had the same idea.

But you're right, clearly FIRST wanted to see FTC robots on those poles...