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Jak,
I believe they posted these rules early for the exact reason of letting us pour over them. How many teams immediately jump into the game and robot design, and overlook the shipping, competition, and safety requirements? I know that we don't even look at the shipping rules and procedures until the weekend before ship! Take the time now to understand and question the rules. FIRST is making it easier for us, so that we don't need to cram everything into the 6 week build period. BEN |
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I guess I'm hanging out with the wrong volunteers... |
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also look at it this way, with loud music playing next to you, how are you supposed to hear important announcements that the Pit Announcer makes Quote:
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James Edit: I would also like to thank whoever decided to mark things with the word New in red, it makes it very easy to find changes. Last edited by JamesBrown : 20-12-2006 at 10:18. |
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I understand frustation like this when these threads are relatively small, but once everything gets going, and these threads are >50 pages long, its going to be nearly impossible to read every single post.
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I fairly certain that only the GDC and FIRST senior management know the game before kickoff.
Some key volunteers find out about field elements and gamepieces in advance (starting a few weeks ago), but these adventurous souls must: 1) have no team affiliation, and 2) sign a secrecy agreement. I know the guy who does this mostly thankless job for the St. Louis region -- he's building whatever it is in his basement right now (and cursing the incomplete and ever changing documentation), so I won't be visiting his house until after kick-off. |
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On the other hand if we need to build a new, conforming crate I'd rather get started now. Assuming they don't declare the crate to be part of the robot and therefore must be built during Build season in another, yet to be revealed, section of the rules. |
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There'll still be cheesy music playing at the regionals! So whats worse, the cheesy music or your own music banging on top of it?
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I agree completely with Ben and Conor about releasing these rules early. For one thing, the change to using the ANSI Z87 standard is incredibly important. I've seen countless people wearing standard eye glasses with those flimsy side-shields. Those don't work. No, no. They REALLY don't because your glasses aren't safety glasses to begin with.
I am posing a challenge to everyone who uses power tools: Take a pair of real safety glasses (they have "Z87" or "Z87+" imprinted in small letters near the edge of the lens). Remove the lens from the frame (it should snap apart - you don't have to break it). Now take a drill with a phillips bit and put a deck screw into the lens. Awesome, huh? It DOESN'T crack. Now take the same lens and hold it steady on a flat surface. Take your favorite hammer and hammer the lens (not the screw). Really hammer it. It doesn't shatter, it only scratches it! Now are you convinced? If not, it's your sight that's at risk. P.S. Please don't use that pair of safety glasses again But you should keep them around to demonstrate to those who complain about this requirement. |
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I haven't read anything about no I-pods with ear buds yet. ![]() |
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