Go to Post And the rest of the team helped them, encouraged them, and made a big deal about how awesome it was that we were competing for the Chairman's Award. - Carolyn_Grace [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > FIRST > General Forum
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
View Poll Results: Should teams be allowed to make repair parts for their robot after a competition is o
Yes - Robots do break - Give us until Tuesday following. 80 61.54%
No - You break you will have to tuff out the repair on site 28 21.54%
No - Just pack up and go home, forget the nationals 3 2.31%
Just break the rule 19 14.62%
Voters: 130. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 7 votes, 4.57 average. Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #13   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 01-02-2002, 11:54
Kris Verdeyen's Avatar
Kris Verdeyen Kris Verdeyen is offline
LSR Emcee/Alamo Game Announcer
FRC #0118 (Robonauts)
Team Role: Engineer
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 699
Kris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond reputeKris Verdeyen has a reputation beyond repute
No one said that it was going to be easy...

Lets get this straight, first of all - FIRST is not Battlebots, and even with the amount of interaction allowed this year, FIRST will not become Battlebots. Even if the games themselves were exactly the same, FIRST will not be BB because of FIRST's code to be gracious professionals at all times. BB doesn't have that.

Does anyone seriously believe that there will be bloodthirsty teams marauding across the playing field, destroying any robots in their path? It stands to reason that no one in this thread complaining about the ruling would behave that way, so why are we so quick to assume that other teams will? IMHO, gracious professionalism includes giving other teams the benefit of the doubt, i.e. assume that they will behave as professionally as we would.

However, even with GP, there will be robots damaged by game interaction. That's inherent in the game. So what can we do about it? We can cheat, by building parts between competitions, we can rely upon the kindness of strangers (which is rarely overestimated at FIRST events), or we can get smart, and build spares beforehand of parts likely to break.

Finally, I would like to say that, yes, it would be nice to have those three days with our robots after the regional, like last year, but I do see the logic in the ruling. It reduces the advantage that rich teams have over those with fewer resouces by not allowing those teams that can afford to go to three regionals have more time with their robot than those that can't. It's that simple.
__________________
...Only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement. -JP Shanley, Joe vs. the Volcano

Last edited by Kris Verdeyen : 02-02-2002 at 04:16.
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
$3500 ruling......big mistake JamesJones Rules/Strategy 42 13-01-2003 18:38
Wow! what a year archiver 2000 8 23-06-2002 22:43
WOW!!! archiver 2000 3 23-06-2002 22:22
WOW RebAl Chit-Chat 15 10-04-2002 17:13
WOW ! Mike Schroeder General Forum 12 12-03-2002 21:32


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:32.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi