Team Update 4

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

What am I supposed to tell them when our Tetrix motors smoke within 5 minutes of use when we have perfectly good Vex motors sitting on a shelf unused, and non Tetrix catapult designs derailed by Update 1?

You would tell them the same thing that you would tell them if you burnt out a BaneBots motor, but couldn't use the globe sitting on the shelf. Why can't we use a different 12V battery that is the same size and same weight but not the specific model*? Now, I'm not sure what the response would be, but it's the same kind of thing.

We all knew that there was controversy regarding the use of catapults. There should have been some kind of discretion applied to designing a catapult before it was clarified. It was going to be legal, or was not, and it turned out to be not. It was simply a chance that was taken. Same situation as the idea of using a vacuum in 2009, if you'd like to look at it that way.

*Motors and batteries are not my forte. Maybe that example isn't quite accurate, but you should see the intent.

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I'm so sad to see our happy FIRST community fall apart because of this.