Smaller robots

[Eric Bareiss]

I think making the limits smaller will tend to hinder rookie teams because they have not yet learned to complete all of the tasks using a smaller amount of space. Also depending on the task, like lifting a big ball, even the most veteran of teams would have trouble with a smaller robot. Just look at how accurate most teams were with the big ball this year. Now if the tasks were lower or smaller I could understand making the robots smaller. But all in all the size is not out of hand, the robots are still managable and the larger size allows for more variaiton in the robots. besides there is no rule that says your robot can't be as small as you want it to be, so more power to the people that make thier robots small and maneuverable.