[FUN] Candidly Speaking 8:30pm Eastern Tonight.

FIRST General Forum
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Candidly Speaking is back. Tonight your hosts will be Karthik, Libby, and Tyler.

YouTube Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqRV_vqtzRU

If you are not familiar with Candidly Speaking we take an up-front PG-13 approach to past and present topics in FRC.

Watch live starting at 8:30pm Eastern

Topics for tonight will be geared towards the 2017 season:

White Glove Award
Local Volunteer Rule Changes
Ethics of Taking Back Cheesecake
Serpentine Draft
In-Match Strategy Adjustments
Q&A From Live Viewers (or ask here on CD)

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Have you talked about using “GP” as a club to shut down dissenting opinions? You should.

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Andrew can you elaborate more or link to a CD post that this relates to so we have more details?

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Wait, there’s a code of ethics to cheesecake?

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First Rule of Cheesecake: Don’t ask about cheesecake.

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So basically give the alliance captain 2 back to back picks? Idd like to broaden the question to include other possible draft styles like 1-8, 1-8, 1-8 (IRI style) and randomized top 8 like how some Texas off seasons have done it.

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It’s a general observation, I’ve found there’s a group of people on here who trot out in any thread involving volunteers saying they are only volunteers and how we aren’t being ‘GP’ if we expect rules to be properly applied or people to do what they say they will.

There’s also a lot of times when ‘unGP’ is trotted out against anything people don’t agree with. Winning multiple awards, attending multiple events, practice bots, mentors touching the robot, or really anything remotely controversial, SOMEONE trots out the ‘no gp’ card.

Heck, I had someone say “you’re not being GP” when they claimed they scored X balls in a match when every match we’d watched them they scored 0 and regularly struggled to move. And it was broached as “well, our data says otherwise, have you guys made any changes?”

It’s used as a cudgel not a guiding principle.

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I’m going to quote the Vex Manual here:

<G1> When reading and applying the various rules in this document, please remember that common sense always applies in the VEX Robotics Competition.

With that said we can explore other options for how alliance selections could be done like the 1 alliance getting 2 picks or something like that.

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Didn’t know the Vex manual could be used for FIRST events, hmmmmm.

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and I didn’t know fuel didn’t matter, but hey, I guess all bets are off now.

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This oughta be good.

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Why would common sense not apply to FIRST as well?

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Cuz they are just volunteers…

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Do you consider strategically breaking rules to be fair play in FRC events? For example a weaker alliance blockading the loading station breaking rule G10 to prevent the other alliance from getting 4 rotors knowing that the only penalty is a yellow card?

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Could you talk about some of the field faults that have been happening, like Phantom Rotors, Boiler counting, or the spring redesigns? Then again, that topic might deserve its own full episode.

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Pretty sure Tyler was making the point that common sense should be applied to something like this and that spending show time on a “loophole” would not be entertaining for viewers.

Also I think you already knew that.

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Or a rotor not starting in autonomous after at least 6 rotations.
(0:11 in video)](https://youtu.be/UlFetHSmgZg?list=PLDFg9f0XE_E5-RtYOTgAaj_yQXSwlP0Y1&t=11)

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I’ll try to fit in this question as I think our hosts would like to answer. Thanks for asking it.

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What do you guys think is responsible for Indiana being substantially more successful with rotors? The 4th rotor spun 19.5% of the time in quals and 52.75% in elims, as opposed to the 1.28% in quals and 5.48% in elims that is the world average.

Also, there was plenty of defense, so that is not at fault.

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“Defense”