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Re: Was play this year too aggresive?
There is another reason I believe that there are some complaints about the agressive play. When in the brainstorming and design phase, I believe that teams decided that thier robot would not need to be as strong as last year. This statement was said in our design phase many times. We decided that game play count easily get agressive or rough, and that we should assume that in the heat of the game, people will do anything allowed be the rules to win a match. As Stu Bloom stated, there is a difference between what you want to call, and what the Referees can actually call.
ALWAYS, build a robot that can put up with 2-5 weekends of bashing and slamming, if it cannot, if will fail. Be conscious of this during design. It would be terrible break in the finals of the Championship at Atlanta next year, just because of unpredicted collisions.
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