pic: New low bar flaps

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

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So it's entirely possible to have a reasonably designed robot that's going to have issues with this significantly different obstacle.

Actually, I am really surprised at the muted response from the Fairness Cult on this point. No matter how you played this your team was impacted by this change. Many teams that designed stuff into their robot that other's didn't have a claim to this being an advantage that the GDC took away from them. Many teams that had perfectly reasonable solutions for the original design have had fits with the new one.

I don't think it is a HUGE deal but I really was expecting a hue and cry from the Fairness Cult corner of the FIRST community.

Am I just getting deaf in my dotage or had the FIRST community matured a little (realizing that FIRST was clearly in the wrong but that they had to do something as not acting was getting more and more impossible as the season progressed)?

Dr. Joe J.

[Roborunner230]

There were times at UMASS Dartmouth this weekend where there were several balls stuck in these flaps, forcing teams to go around the low bar. They would have to go from the courtyard to the neutral zone before attempting to damage the defense so they could knock these boulders out of the way without being penalized. It was a bit of a hassle to say the least.