Team update 16

[Martinez]

Originally Posted by Enigma's puzzle

Although i have to agree with the change in the ranking system, i cannot say that i agree with the GDC changing the rules on the 3" penalty. It seems like they took a critical engineering problem out of the equation, i cannot speak for everyone, but as soon as we saw the problem occur on the robot, we designed a solution. I was surprised how many people hadn't designed a robot to prevent themselves from doing that. Dean and Woodie even brought that point up at kickoff.

You have to realize that alot of teams do not go through a very robust Test n Debug period prior to ship. Heck, having a finished working enough robot to play for Friday is considered a success by several teams. As a result, many teams recieved infractions again and again, espcially around the goal area.

Heck, we designed and redesigned our system to allow plenty of space to go over the bump, but keep out balls and got ourselves going over a ball we couldn't seefrom the playerstation once or twice as we tried going over the Bumps. Less Penalties (especailly in this game) I see as a very good thing.