What changes to this year's game...?

[Mike Schroeder]

I whole heartedly agree with you, my team if you look at its prior years robots, have always tried to find away to look out side the box, unfourtuantly, we looked outside the wrong box, we thought alot of teams would build moe like stacking robots, and that there would not be many "stack Destroyers" . so we designed a machine that moves quickly and has a strong drive train, another thing, that wall, allot of teams took into consideration when designing their robots, that there was going to be 4 robots hitting that wall at reletivly the same time. that makes for some nice accidents. thuse a strong robot with some pushing powers, now honestly my robot knowledge isnt all that great, but once you put everything you would need to make it so that it is fast stong and can durablly hit that wall, unless its integrated into the stacking system, then that lives little weight, and if some people noticed, 1:45 isnot alot of time to do anything. Team 25 had a stacker we used it ONCE and the only reason we used it, was because both our oppenents were disabled, and we had 1:30 to kill. and it took us majority of that time to make a 3 stack. i think someone said earlier that FIRST needed to venture away from its 2 minute rounds, they are correct, unfourtunatly that would make for week + long competitions

Doug: we were just a strong robot with an awsome driver, i belive that your word could be better said to team taht unfortunatly didnot do well, teams like 71,234 and the other flailers, they had a unique strategey and uniques robots, and teams like 357, and 365 and those other stackers whos robots tried and tried again to do somthing that was outside the box this year, and to teams and also teams like 111, using a unique desgin to control the ramp each and everytime with minimal effort, i wonder what FIRST would have been like w/o teams that went with this unique strategy


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