Update 12

[Sami07]

Originally Posted by cjl2625

It's a ruse! We've been duped! Hoodwinked! We've been smeckledorfed!

This is very true. If there goal was to freak us out, they have succeeded.

[rsisk]

lol, that was a pretty good troll. Now we can say we are more like Battlebots because have fire too!

[NShep98]

Originally Posted by cjl2625

We've been smeckledorfed!

That's not even a word and I agree with ya!

[Foster]

Originally Posted by NShep98

That's not even a word and I agree with ya!

Smeckledorfed is now and I'm going to use it every chance I get.

I'm on the fence about the announcement. I know they know that there are teams that are on the wrong side of meltdown so I think it was meant as a fun thing.

Maybe not in a team update. A Frank Friday post would have been perfect. OTOH it's a good lesson on "can you follow directions?" Teams that do will have a sigh of relief, those that can't will panic."

[JABot67]

The GDC has put a joke in a team update. It is obviously a joke, and has no implications for the rest of build season or for competition season. Sure, maybe if these jokes happened all the time it would get pretty annoying. However, I think we should all put down our pitchforks.

We're all having a stressful end of build season. However, getting more stressed out because of this is irrational.

[Sami07]

I don't understand why it was a part of the update if it was a spoof.

[thatnameistaken]

Originally Posted by AndrewPospeshil

I've been hunting for it also. Maybe it's because I'm on my phone at school (during lunchtime, not class, I promise!) but I can't find anything about this 10th defense other than the mention that it's supposedly been added in Update 12. The FIRST app doesn't seem to include any mention of it in the manual, nor the FIRST website - Section 2 of the Game Manual was last updated on the 16th. Can any other CD users with an actual computer verify that I'm not going crazy?

The video is only in the team update pdf itself because it's a joke.

[anushad]

I just looked on the FIRST app; unless actual dragon fire as shown by team 2526 is going to be used in a match, this is just some kind of joke. It seems weird that they would put this in an actual team update, but I guess....

[MamaSpoldi]

Agreed... the 10th defense video in the Team Update was unnecessarily nerve-wracking.

Has anyone else tried to get the driverstation update? It does not appear to be posted on the NI website yet...

[lenny8]

Got me.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Update 13: Low bar is now 2" shorter. Design accordingly.

[bearbot]

They Got me for a second then I realized it was a joke. Would of be cool to have a dragon somewhere on the field since is a medieval theme only thing missing was a dragon

[E Dawg]

[aovozza3]

When I first saw the update, I was a little confused on to why they would include this video.

However, I think they used it as a way to get teams to actually read the updates. Many teams don't take the time to stay up to date on the rules past the first week of the season.

This update in particular is important because it talks about a required update to the driver station. In the past, I have gone to tournaments where rookie and fairly new teams initially fail inspection because they do not have the current software packages. I feel that the video was a fun way to remind teams to stay up to date with the robot rules.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by aovozza3

When I first saw the update, I was a little confused on to why they would include this video.

However, I think they used it as a way to get teams to actually read the updates. Many teams don't take the time to stay up to date on the rules past the first week of the season.

This update in particular is important because it talks about a required update to the driver station. In the past, I have gone to tournaments where rookie and fairly new teams initially fail inspection because they do not have the current software packages. I feel that the video was a fun way to remind teams to stay up to date with the robot rules.

If they don't read them in the first place, why would adding a joke video inside of the update make them read it? They'd have to read it to know it is even there.