[BB]: Regional Variations & Bagging It

[Rick TYler]

Since my wildly humorous comment above may apparently be misconstrued -- I was suggesting that we might be seeing parallel evolution with different processes trending towards a similar result. I started saying three years ago that FVC would be successful only in that it looked like a smaller version of FRC and not Sr. FLL. That came true. Now in solving some different problems, an FVC/FTC/VRC-style multi-field 2v2 competition with smaller robots has been posited as a possible solution. Hence, the jocular and somewhat ironic comment about convergence. FRC --> FVC --> FTC/VRC --> new smaller FRC. See?

Originally Posted by Andrew

Now, those things being said, I think that FRC is the perfect scale. Smaller means that it gets boring for TV (less complicated mechanisms which are always impressive).

One small disagreement: smaller <> less complex. Take a look at this VEX robot: http://www.vexforum.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=3051. You couldn't see it on television, but there is a lot of engineering going on there in an 8-pound package.