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Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

Was it just me or did you all think FIRST tried to narrow the playing field with the 5' height rule? I personally think that they did; this takes away any major leverage that teams (who have ambiguous resources) have with creating arms and whatnot. I like this idea, it gives each and every team the ability to compete fairly without one team being restricted as another is unrestricted. As for mentors/adults/enginners who build robots....I have no comment.

I think it was partially because the game would become significantly easier if your robot could be arbitrarily tall. There would be nothing stopping a team from building their shooter at the 10 foot level and just kind of pumping the balls in, which would eliminate the need for use of the camera. The field-leveling was probably a side effect.