Unscheduled Team Update: 3-20-2014

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Originally Posted by Tungrus

If a robot cannot handle defense it shouldn't be on the field!!

Some teams aren't capable of creating a bot that can handle hits. Are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to participate?

It seems to me the point of this update is to solve this problem. Many teams aren't capable of making a sturdy bot (as already discussed). I've never had one of my robots be totaled, but I can only imagine how heartbreaking that would be. 6 weeks destroyed by a single hit. With the carnage of this year's game, it seems to me that the GDC is trying to protect weak bots, not shut down the strong ones!

Now of course it would be great if every single robot was an invincible tank, but that isn't the case. From the general attitude in this thread it seems that most of the people in FRC have pretty robust robots, but some teams just don't.

I don't like the update, because it negates a lot of the abilities our robot has. And yet... I kind of agree with it, because I've seen way too much carnage in the past few weeks and it needs to stop.