Concerns regarding the green paneling/green shirts

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

There is no rule against painting or anodizing your robot green (or any other color for that matter).

I haven't seen the sensors yet this year but I would hope they have the ability to adjust the sensibility.

Actually, as has been posted, there is.

Check out rule R26 in section 5.

--Petey

[billbuckner]

Yeah, would have guessed that they have seen this comming.

[Roland]

Hey, Petey, it says your name in big letters above your posts.

--Petey

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Roland

Hey, Petey, it says your name in big letters above your posts.

--Petey

Thank you, Roland. I am perfectly aware of that fact, naturally, but I appreciate your concern.

--Petey

[BandChick]

What about teams like MOE? They have always had Green robots and Green shirts, I doubt they would want to change that. The same goes for 233, are they not going to be allowed a pink robot this year?

Rule 26 says you aren't allowed to intefere INTENTIONALLY with the sensors, but that's just team spirit, not intentional distraction. In my book it doesn't seem fair to prevent these teams from their usual displays.

[billbuckner]

Originally Posted by BandChick

What about teams like MOE? They have always had Green robots and Green shirts, I doubt they would want to change that. The same goes for 233, are they not going to be allowed a pink robot this year?

Rule 26 says you aren't allowed to intefere INTENTIONALLY with the sensors, but that's just team spirit, not intentional distraction. In my book it doesn't seem fair to prevent these teams from their usual displays.

Yeah, but it seems even less fair to have a robot be unable to function due to an unrelated non-element of the game.

[Petey]

Well, then what is to stop my team from suddenly adopting this tradition?

If you paint your robot a color that you know will interfere with it, than isn't it intentional damage, since it is knowing damage?

I'd be surprised if FIRST doesn't explicate this.

--Petey

[Jay H 237]

According to the rule, the way it is currently written, is that you can't keep changing it's color to give you an advantage, but it doesn't say you can't have a green robot that you built as a green robot during the six weeks.

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

According to the rule, the way it is currently written, is that you can't keep changing it's color to give you an advantage, but it doesn't say you can't have a green robot that you built as a green robot during the six weeks.

Mmmm...chameleon robot.

I'm definitely asking FIRST this.

--Petey

[billbuckner]

I will be VERY suprised if they didn't think of this.

[karinka13]

I'm already VERY surprised they didn't use some other kinda sensor...like radio waves...or something

[ebmonon36]

Originally Posted by billbuckner

Yeah, but it seems even less fair to have a robot be unable to function due to an unrelated non-element of the game.

I dont know the specs on the sensors, but I think MOE's green is light enough that it would know the difference between MOE green and vision-tetra green.
Eric

[xxerin]

The cameras have a limeted field of view so it its unlikely that green shirts would distract them

[Petey]

Keep in mind that this also applies for red, blue, and yellow robots, because the tetras themselves are red and blue and the loading docks are yellow.

--Petey

[tiffany34990]

yeah i was thinking about this a lot-- for teams like swampthing and moe

but it does have to be directly in view-- hopefully it shouldn't mess things up that much

it seems like an interesting thing to do if you go against someone with that ability but as others stated it could hurt your partner

keep up the thinking ppl....