Rule Changes at off season competitions

[Bcahn836]

[quote=Ken Leung]
2. Up the weight limit to 140 lbs. I think this will allow teams to add a whole new component to their robot if they want to. They can use bigger chains, bigger wheels, or add another set of pneumatics on their robot. While 10 lbs isn't a whole lot, it can be a matter of life and death for an arm, a winch, or a ball roller. I think with enough ahead of time announcement, this rule can be applied to an off season event and motivate teams to work on their robot during the summer.[quote=Ken Leung]

At the offseason competitions i went to last year none of the robots were weighed. The rules at the offseason competitions are more laid back because we all are there to have fun and feed our craving for robotics. But i will say by adding ten lbs some teams can test out parts that never made it on the robot due to weight or try out a new development for next years game.

[Astronouth7303]

why not just remove it all together or set it at, like, 500? I don't mean let people put anvils on it or build a huge bot, just let the engineers run free for a few months.

[Bharat Nain]

I would like to see something amazing. Increasing the weight limit definately helps. I mean there are robots out there who had to get rid of many components just because of weight limitations. Adding components would definately make the competition a whole lot exciting. I want to see teams improve their robots, especially parts which are weak. Like this last competition, our robot just touches other robot and they tip over, I would like to see teams do something to overcome that. In programming, I am planning to slow mode on our robot just because its hard to control sometimes. I don't mean to boast about our robot or something, I just wish to see teams come up with intresting ideas and ways to keep going during a game and play a competitive game. This has definately been a very interesting season, I would like to see more spice and action... Good Luck all

[Arefin Bari]

what is the progress of rules for off-season... do we know if its possible or not?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by mechman108

what is the progress of rules for off-season... do we know if its possible or not?

Lol, it's up to the teams that host events if they want to modify off-season rules so it varies for each competition

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Lol, it's up to the teams that host events if they want to modify off-season rules so it varies for each competition

I was waiting for someone to tell him that.

[Phil 33]

I think we should change the rules so that refs aren't so picky about when a robot goes into the ball corral. Think about it. How many times was a penalty called because a team went just a hair into the ball corral? I agree a team should not stick a protruded object 2 feet deep into the ball corral, but I don't think if a part of a robot accidently goes a few inches into the ball corral its going to hurt anybody or make a significant difference. It's not competitive advantage in any way. You might argue that this could hurt someone, but thats why I'm saying we should not abandon the rule entirely, just use common sense. If it looks accidental, and its not a sharp dangerous object going into the ball corral, and if its not crossing the barrier too much then lets not call it. It's a nit picky rule, lets loosen it up a bit.

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Phil 33

I think we should change the rules so that refs aren't so picky about when a robot goes into the ball corral. Think about it. How many times was a penalty called because a team went just a hair into the ball corral? I agree a team should not stick a protruded object 2 feet deep into the ball corral, but I don't think if a part of a robot accidently goes a few inches into the ball corral its going to hurt anybody or make a significant difference. It's not competitive advantage in any way. You might argue that this could hurt someone, but thats why I'm saying we should not abandon the rule entirely, just use common sense. If it looks accidental, and its not a sharp dangerous object going into the ball corral, and if its not crossing the barrier too much then lets not call it. It's a nit picky rule, lets loosen it up a bit.

im going to second this... i KNOW all human players have the common sense of if the robot may go under, they keep thier hands out of the corral... its going to be tricky espically with all these new drive teams that may be loosing both thier drivers, are new kids trying out for the first time... i think that the ball corral and a few other small penalties involving the robot could be ligtened up a bit =D

[Bcahn836]

Team 836 at off season competitions usually let other people from our team that have not been able to drive the robot drive in competition, this way we have an idea who to train to become the next drive team. So i don't think my human player wants to stick his hand in the ball coral if there is a robot near.
LOL