FIRST releases Team Update #18

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

Sorry, all you teams who didn't have the resources to build capable arms but still had the means to develop good enough drivetrains to employ creative, non-damaging defensive strategies - your job just became that much tougher. If ya can't live up in the clouds with the big boys, you might as well just stay out of their way.

Give me a break. I've seen rookie teams with practically no money, mentors, or facilities who built perfectly capable tetra-manipulating machines. I don't buy resources as an excuse for why teams build robots that are really only capable of running into other robots. Teams who were interested in manipulating tetras found a way, even if that meant basically just pushing them into the goals. After all, each side has 2 tetras already on the field (vision), yet they go unscored in many matches.

Originally Posted by BRAVESaj25bd8

I think FIRST should be encouraging creative and outside the box ways of thinking of this game.

Do you honestly think that interfering with a robot trying to score or running into them again and again is "creative" and "outside the box thinking" (regardless of whether or not it's legal)? I don't.