New Ideas for next year's competition

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Originally Posted by XCJP

While I was at the buckeye regional one of our team mentors gave me an excellent idea. He was talking about how there has always been the option of using the same drive system year after year. I mean there has been some slight variation but many teams can just stick to there old design. Our team mentor came up with the idea of using something like a PVC platform that robots would have to maneuver around on to perform the game. The old style of the field has always been the balls or tetras laid out over the field with any other game objectives there to make it interesting. A drastic change seems to be in order to force some teams to come up with new designs.

Why force teams to use new designs though? If they have a drivetrain that works, then they can focus on making an awesome manipulator.

Similarly, this would put rookies at an even bigger disadvantage. While many veteran teams would have the resources to figure out a new drive, or modify their current one, rookies would have no clue whatsoever.


FIRST doesn't need to make rules to create innovation, we do it on our own, regardless of the game.