Infared in Next Year's Game

[danielkitchener]

IR is here to stay. Notice FIRST's pattern: bring in something new and make it easy, then make it harder. They did the same thing with alliances. THe first year it wasn't so bad. Then it got harder. Same thing with last year - no set requirements for autonomous. All you had to do was either go straight forward or do a 180-degree arc. This year, you had to find a 12" ball on the side of the field by going through a relatively narrow space and hit the ball off of a T surrounded on 3 sides (left, right, and top) by walls, as well as placing an opponent ball next to it so almost any inaccuracy would favor the opponent. I reckon (pardon the pun...heh) that they will do a similar thing with IR. THis year it was not necessary. There were other ways. Next year, I'm betting it will be a bigger part of the game, possibly even required. Like autonomous last year was not required. This year, you were penalized for not using it. Look for IR to become a bigger part of the game. I just hope they don't use jimmy's scenario (post#27)