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

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by ToddF

As an alternative, only allow colored disks to count as scored if they are shot into the pyramid goals, not dumped. That would restore the strategic balance between floor pickup and climber/dumpers. Teams who just climb without dumping and those who only load from the feeder stations are unaffected, and floor pick-up'ers and dumpers both loose scoring potential which is roughly equal.

I think that would be even a more absurd change than what was done...designing with the sole intention of climbing and dumping in the top(if that is what you are saying should be made illegal) is VERY different than floor loaders having less disks to pick up off the ground...taking that away from teams that designed SOLELY to climb and dump essentially devalues those robots EXTREMELY. Committing to designing a robot that SOLELY climbs and dumps is a much bigger commitment than designing one that picks up off the ground