FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers

[Darkseer54]

Originally Posted by EricH

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Remember, they are trying to get more people into FRC. A big part of this is making the viewing experience intense and/or exciting. While a more difficult challenge may make for interesting and complex designs, the last thing I would want to do to a game like RR is slow down the speed with which teams can make stacks. People want to see robots not only working, but continuing to work faster and faster until they are making record pace. People want to see these robots doing things that humans can't (or at least that's what we are always asked to show at demos and such.) Limiting motors limits robots capacities to accomplish these feats, and while some teams will be able to work around these constraints, a majority of teams will just have another constraint pushing them towards having mediocre rather than competitive robots.