Reversable Bumpers Illegal?

[Jon Stratis]

While this was expected, it still makes me happy

[Kevin Sevcik]

Sweet. That makes two team updates I've made it into this year.

[BoilerMentor]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

While this was expected, it still makes me happy

You're not kidding. Me too.

Also, thank you @Kevin.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Sweet. That makes two team updates I've made it into this year.

This is not necessarily a good thing. Ask Raul about some Wildstang strategies that were disallowed by Team Updates.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

This is not necessarily a good thing. Ask Raul about some Wildstang strategies that were disallowed by Team Updates.

Gary, Better to find out about disallowed strategies through team updates than through failing inspection, fouls, technical fouls, yellow cards, and red cards!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Gary, Better to find out about disallowed strategies through team updates than through failing inspection, fouls, technical fouls, yellow cards, and red cards!

Funny thing is, the particular strategy referenced was specifically NOT ruled illegal by Q&A!

Then it was used. That's when the Team Update was issued.


The backstory: Back in '07, you got points for having robots entirely supported by other robots. The rules (initially) didn't specify that robots couldn't start stacked on each other. When Wildstang (and Raul) found themselves with two barely-mobile partners, the alliance agreed to stack the partners during match setup and then E-stop the pair of them, while Wildstang scored what they could. Worked perfectly... then the next Tuesday, the Team Update declared that strategy illegal.

[GaryVoshol]

There's also been cases of other rule updates that pop up after the Week 0 shakedown event(s) and even after Week 1 official events. Teams come up with ways to circumvent rules, or even break the game, that the GDC didn't consider before. This is no reflection on the GDC. 40000 young minds come up with strategies that a handful of game designers missed.