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[Amanda Morrison]

Not only has this reached the point of being ridiculous, I'm going to remind everyone that personal replies or comments should be PM'ed to each other. This thread was started for suggestions to the rules, not how to test robustness of a robot.

As much as you may want the ChiefDelphi community to see your argument, we may not want to see yours.

[Don Wright]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

Not only has this reached the point of being ridiculous, I'm going to remind everyone that personal replies or comments should be PM'ed to each other. This thread was started for suggestions to the rules, not how to test robustness of a robot.

As much as you may want the ChiefDelphi community to see your argument, we may not want to see yours.

You're right...I'm sorry...

I hope the rules don't change in terms of aggressive driving and entanglement for next year. They were fine this year.

[Ken Leung]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

Not only has this reached the point of being ridiculous, I'm going to remind everyone that personal replies or comments should be PM'ed to each other. This thread was started for suggestions to the rules, not how to test robustness of a robot.

As much as you may want the ChiefDelphi community to see your argument, we may not want to see yours.

Let's try to re-focus our thoughts and energy back into the original topic of the thread, shall we? There were some excellent discussions a page ago, and even though I am quite entertained by the image of KenW going after 229's bot (or vice-versa), I would hate to have to remove any future posts regarding that idea (although I wouldn't reject the idea of scorekeeper vs. robots if someone ever bring that up Q(^_^Q) ).

Just want to remind you that this thread has reached page 4, and it's harder and harder for everyone keep track of all points of the discussion. It would be nice if someone step up to the plate and organize this thread a little bit and point at a direction this discussion should continue onto. Or you can just go back to the original question posted by Adian.

Thanks for understanding~ I am still sick from the Atlanta trip, and even though I kept trying to read through this entire thread, I kept falling asleep half way.

[MikeDubreuil]

In order to keep FIRST friendly and more sportsmanship oriented, and also to encourage offense I recommend a new penalty system be put into place.

Standard Rules:
1.No tipping.
2.No desctucive play.
3.No damage.
4.No entanglement.

Intentional violations of the standard rules allow a referee to disqualify a robot.

If a team is operating the robot in a manor that is questionable or is borderline breaking the rules, a yellow card is shown as a warning. Yellow cards are not comulative.

If a team accidentally violates the rules, a red card is shown and a robot is disabled for a period of time (I.E. 10 seconds).