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Re: Team Update 6
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Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid
- Shenzen and Champ practice fields will not be official FIRST fields (presumably AM fields)
- Despite being in the rules already, there's now another place that says there can be only two people in the airship.
- Touchpads are likely to break at 75 lbs of force.
- Apparently the touchpad dome likes to come unseated, and is no longer a foul if you do so.
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I appreciate the summary, but it would be more appreciated if you'd not incorrectly summarize the Team Update.
- Both the FIRST and the AndyMark fields are both "official fields" used at Official FIRST Robotics Competition events. Otherwise, are district events "official"?
- It seems I am unable to find a maximum capacity on the airship prior to Team Update 06, except G03 says how many people must be in the airship during a match. I assume FIRST added a maximum capacity for safety reasons for people wanting to go into the airship before and after the tournament.
- The Team Update says that 75lbs of force is UNLIKELY to damage the touchpad. That seems like a roundabout way of recommending "don't use more than 75lbs of pressure", but it in now way definitively states that 76lbs will cause damage. My guess is FIRST factored in a safety factor and is hiding the true damage amount, if they even know themselves, but they're confident in how much force won't damage it.
- Wow, that's quite a stretch to get "the touchpad dome likes to come unseated" from the Team Update. They just said it's not field damage, probably in the same way popping a zip tie or knocking off a piece of plastic isn't necessarily field damage. I'll reserve my assumptions for when I finally see one of these in a competition setting.
-George
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Last edited by MasterMentor : 27-01-2017 at 14:56.
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