Rule Changes at off season competitions

[Astronouth7303]

why not just remove it all together or set it at, like, 500? I don't mean let people put anvils on it or build a huge bot, just let the engineers run free for a few months.

[Bharat Nain]

I would like to see something amazing. Increasing the weight limit definately helps. I mean there are robots out there who had to get rid of many components just because of weight limitations. Adding components would definately make the competition a whole lot exciting. I want to see teams improve their robots, especially parts which are weak. Like this last competition, our robot just touches other robot and they tip over, I would like to see teams do something to overcome that. In programming, I am planning to slow mode on our robot just because its hard to control sometimes. I don't mean to boast about our robot or something, I just wish to see teams come up with intresting ideas and ways to keep going during a game and play a competitive game. This has definately been a very interesting season, I would like to see more spice and action... Good Luck all

[Arefin Bari]

what is the progress of rules for off-season... do we know if its possible or not?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by mechman108

what is the progress of rules for off-season... do we know if its possible or not?

Lol, it's up to the teams that host events if they want to modify off-season rules so it varies for each competition

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Lol, it's up to the teams that host events if they want to modify off-season rules so it varies for each competition

I was waiting for someone to tell him that.

[Phil 33]

I think we should change the rules so that refs aren't so picky about when a robot goes into the ball corral. Think about it. How many times was a penalty called because a team went just a hair into the ball corral? I agree a team should not stick a protruded object 2 feet deep into the ball corral, but I don't think if a part of a robot accidently goes a few inches into the ball corral its going to hurt anybody or make a significant difference. It's not competitive advantage in any way. You might argue that this could hurt someone, but thats why I'm saying we should not abandon the rule entirely, just use common sense. If it looks accidental, and its not a sharp dangerous object going into the ball corral, and if its not crossing the barrier too much then lets not call it. It's a nit picky rule, lets loosen it up a bit.

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Phil 33

I think we should change the rules so that refs aren't so picky about when a robot goes into the ball corral. Think about it. How many times was a penalty called because a team went just a hair into the ball corral? I agree a team should not stick a protruded object 2 feet deep into the ball corral, but I don't think if a part of a robot accidently goes a few inches into the ball corral its going to hurt anybody or make a significant difference. It's not competitive advantage in any way. You might argue that this could hurt someone, but thats why I'm saying we should not abandon the rule entirely, just use common sense. If it looks accidental, and its not a sharp dangerous object going into the ball corral, and if its not crossing the barrier too much then lets not call it. It's a nit picky rule, lets loosen it up a bit.

im going to second this... i KNOW all human players have the common sense of if the robot may go under, they keep thier hands out of the corral... its going to be tricky espically with all these new drive teams that may be loosing both thier drivers, are new kids trying out for the first time... i think that the ball corral and a few other small penalties involving the robot could be ligtened up a bit =D

[Bcahn836]

Team 836 at off season competitions usually let other people from our team that have not been able to drive the robot drive in competition, this way we have an idea who to train to become the next drive team. So i don't think my human player wants to stick his hand in the ball coral if there is a robot near.
LOL

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Specialagentjim

Not so much a rule change as a subgame.

I want to see a match where you place all the robots on the field at once, and say whoever can hang first wins. (for those of you who remember mayhem in miami, think King of the Hill)

OOh, me like this rule change. But, it would have to be a seperate skills competition. In this year's game, I did see some matches where everyone, or maybe 3 robots hung very quickly, and then there was not much of a game afterwards. It was nice that they could hang so fast, but even as our own drivers have admitted, it lacks the excitement of a full game with everything on the field happening (ie: ball grabbers, human player scoring, decapping, capping), and we are a hanging robot.

It's just one aspect of the game folks, so if you have a hanging only skills event, then have skills events where you test the ball collecting skills, and the HP skills, and the Auto-mode skills too. Don't just make it a hanger show-off event. Let everyone show their skills.