New size/bumper rules that every team should know

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by DaveL

I'm with Blake on this issue and think it needs to be explained by FIRST as its hard to believe they really want us to build small robots with a frame perimeter of 120 inches.

To me, it sounds like reasonable restrictions to make it a good engineering challenge. The game pieces are small this year. Like, really small... I can't remember having one this small before. And there are a lot of them. 600, to be precise. Allowing larger robots means more storage space for game pieces. Smaller robots means the game can playout with game pieces available for everyone, instead of the two robots that hoard everything and shoot them in. Plus, it forces robots to make more trips to shoot, which helps with the requirements for the boiler processing fuel - you would hate to have 300 fuel dumped in 5 seconds before the end of the game and most of it not get counted.