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Originally Posted by Bertman
I personally would like to see
1. no required wheels or supplier
2. move autonomous to the last 15 seconds of the round
3. no exotic type surfaces
4. no burdensome penalty system
5. continuation of challenging fun
6. Multi-level field
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
They're not going to make the game have the same variables every year. This is basically "undo everthing they did this year and make it back to the way I'm comfortable with", which FIRST isn't in the interest of doing. They want no one to be comfortable in this competition, that's where people learn the most.
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I would hardly say this is undoing everything they did last year.
The required wheels or suppliers is a concern of a couple people I know, plus, some wheels/parts are better suited to play styles, it is just letting us choose. I mean, what if, because Google is a supporter of FIRST we were required to use Sketchup to design our robot. Would you have a problem with that? Same concept with the wheels (Not saying AndyMark had anything to do with the decision)
Autonomous to end of match, hasnt been done before. I think it would be cool to have to figure out where you are and get to another point (randomly chosen at the start of auton of course)
No Exotic Surfaces does not mean "Go back to carpet" it means that we need to have a surface that is readily available to teams and cheap. Plywood, Cement etc. I would prefer NOT to see another
game where the flooring for a field costs more than we spend on our robot. (397 builds robots from raw materials and the KOP so we don't incur huge costs in the robot)
4, and 5 were done this year*
A multi-level playing field has not been done since 2006 had its pair of ramps. The ramps were not really integral playing field components like 2003's ramp.
*5 could be argued by some people but let us not get into that debate there are other threads for that.