Team Update #1

[artdutra04]

Team Update #1 was just FIRST's attempt at maintaining their record of always creating one nearly universally-hated rule every year.

Originally we were planning on a sub-one-second time from breaking the Tower plane to hitting the trigger, but now G19 and physics says that's impossible. Good bye innovation. Good bye inspiring designs. Hello clone bots with identical performance.

At this rate, Team Update #2 should just eliminate the Minibots and replace it with the drive team captains playing rock-paper-scissors to determine the bonus points.

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

I thought they did it for the safety of the volunteers, staff and teams.

The energy required to safely and efficiently launch a Minibot would have been a fraction of what most teams had last year in their kickers. Teams managed fine last year, so I don't see how somehow they are incapable of designing safe devices this year.

Besides, rampant strategies (such as teams firing things at the trigger than aren't completely wrapped around the pole) could have been avoided by adding a rule disabling the tower if the Minibot hits the carpet.