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

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by QuackAttack177

I was a human player at the Suffeild Scrimmage for team 177, and it was one of, if the best moment of my robotics experience. Over the course of a day I hit a total of 11 shots with my highest score in a single match being eight, (two three pointers and one two pointer) FIRST took all of the fun out of being a human player, while simultaneously ruining many teams overall strategy of relying on the discs of blizzard time. I am disappointed not only of the shortsightedness of FIRST (I mean what did you expect?) but also how poorly they responded to this problem. Instead of finding a rational solution that wouldn't change the overall flow and style of the game, the instead decided to cut out and ignore the problem all together. Great life lesson FIRST, if you don't want to deal with a problem just ignore it and everything will be better.

hmm, i'm not so sure to call it "ignoring a problem' the problem in this case was the potential safety hazard of the crew and the equipment from flying discs. following this train of logic, ignoring the issue would've been to not have any crew or field equipment. Instead, they reduced the safety hazards (in this case the flying discs).