Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

[Mike Copioli]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

How exactly were you expecting a human player velocity restriction to be enforced? It was easy on robots in 2006 because you'd ramp a shooter up to full power and that was as fast as it'd shoot. I'm uncertain how you determine the maximum velocity a human can throw a Frisbee. What if she's sandbagging during the test? How would you know? How would you enforce a limit on the velocity on the field?

It would not be the first rule that was subjective.

I still feel the the robots are the bigger hazard. This ruling, IMO, changes the game more than it improves safety.

BTW the 2006 velocity restriction was not that easy to enforce during game play.