[FRC Blog] FIRST Choice 2017

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by maxnz

I was looking through rules and it seems that Victor 884s have been legal since at least 2003. (I couldn't find anything for 2004 or prior to 2003. And 2017 hasn't been completely released yet.) 14 years.

Here's 2004; it was 884s that year as well.

[Mark McLeod]

884's were introduced in 2003, before that they used 883's (those were first introduced in 1999).
Here is the KOP list for 2002 showing the 883's.

[Ken Streeter]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

... the rules for the flag holders (had to be held vertically on the top of the robot) were hard to work around with some ramp designs in 2007. ...

Coming up with a workable flag solution (the flag had to be at a specific, quite-tall height) was one of our challenges in 2008 for Speed Racer as we wanted to be able to drive under / through balls as if they weren't there...