Level 3 Point Upgrade for Champs?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by SteveGPage

Who's to say that the GDC didn't add this rule for a completely different reason - that the parameters for Championships would be different than Regionals. When we strategized how we would build this year's bot, we designed it with that possibility in mind, since they were in the rules on day one.

Because that'd be just plain silly and counterproductive. If this were an engineering competition I'd agree with you that it'd add in a good "real world" twist. But if the goal of this program is to change the culture we would be best to not discourage our kids with what I consider the darker side of engineering (the fact that sometimes the right solution is wrong because some arbitrary group decides your product is bad). Because explaining that they can't throw frisbees for safety reasons was hard. Explaining that that suddenly the rules change "because some dudes in their ivory tower decided it was so" is even worse. Though, I guess "to level the playing field" is even worse... so whatever. The GDC can do whatever they want... I'm just tired of hearing teams gripe about how their 30 point climber isn't an instant win.