FRC Field in FLL Game Manual

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by EricH

Missed at least one: 2009 had gray carpet. Admittedly, it's easy to miss, but the border of the field--1' or so, as I recall--was gray carpet (this to enable escaping from pins); the carpet was laid out and then the FRP was unrolled on top and secured.

It's a nuance, but I suspect the GDC implemented the 1' carpeted 'field border' in 2009 more to provide some friction so robots were less likely to slide into the field walls at 6+ fps all the time.

[Joe G.]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

It's a nuance, but I suspect the GDC implemented the 1' carpeted 'field border' in 2009 more to provide some friction so robots were less likely to slide into the field walls at 6+ fps all the time.

If I recall, the stated purpose of the carpet perimeter was to allow pinned robots to have a friction advantage over the pinning opponent. In reality, it mostly just enhanced the field's effectiveness as a Van de Graff generator.

[rsisk]

Apparently there will be many sizes of FRC fields next year, and in a multitude of colors