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

[Mike Copioli]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

At this point in the season, I am sure that any change to the manual would cause outrage in the FRC community. They could release an update saying they were going to give every team free puppies and kittens, and many teams would vehemently complain this change was too late to budget dry kibbles into their budget.

No, we would only complain if FIRST choice ran out of puppies

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Mike Copioli

No, we would only complain if FIRST choice ran out of puppies

Since when could puppies handle 60A of continuous current?

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by Mike Copioli

No, we would only complain if FIRST choice ran out of puppies

Hmmm, maybe that was the real reason that they changed this rule.

I also Game Announce and was considering referring to Frisbees leaving the field as souvenirs.

Have you tried to order Frisbees from AndyMark lately?

[BHS_STopping]

One idea might be to impose a penalty if a disc thrown by a human player leaves the field. It might encourage more care by the human players, and still give teams an opportunity to throw discs onto the field (not necessarily into the goals) in order to feed their robots.

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by BHS_STopping

One idea might be to impose a penalty if a disc thrown by a human player leaves the field. It might encourage more care by the human players, and still give teams an opportunity to throw discs onto the field (not necessarily into the goals) in order to feed their robots.

IMHO, the referees are already overtaxed in this game.

Just wait for that first 20 point technical and 30 points climb penalty as you leave your loading zone and hit a robot touching its pyramid.