Ring It Up! and Rack n' Roll

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Siri

As for the elevation, I'm not into FTC kit (or even VEX now) but I'll be interested to see what sorts of liftee robots the exponential rule creates. By and large, a fully-equipped robot could be lifted to maximum point bonus in Rack 'n Roll. I picture some really small box bots for rookies to be lifted the way the FTC crates were last year.

A couple of quick notes:
1) The lift rule is not exponential; it is 5 points for each extra inch, which means that the extra height might not be as important as it was in last year's FTC game.
2) The FTC kit lacks in several ways, but this year the raw material rules got opened way up. Now we can use any amount of any raw material that is widely available on McMaster or someplace similar. Also, next year North American teams get to start using the Matrix system, which looks promising. I think those two factors will do a lot to make FTC robots more interesting.