Least favorite rules?

Competition Rules/Strategy
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Ok, so I didn’t find a thread with this in it,
What are your least favorite rules for 2007?

I’ll start with mine:
I dislike the rule for the backup battery charger (quite frankly from what I’ve read, IFI’s design doesn’t work, and they even put a disclaimer on it)

I also dislike the rule for the power distribution blocks. Put together, it weighs about a pound, and along with the different breaker panels, it weighs around 2-3 lbs :ahh:

Let me know what you think!
(oh, and it doesn’t have to be just with the robot, can be any area!)

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the 72 x 72" rule!

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I’m thinking this may need to become moderated in the near future, so let’s try and keep that from happening and try not to give the CD mods anything else to do during this busy part of the season. When you are about to hit the reply button, let’s just try and make our grandmothers proud.

JT
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i see nothing horrible…

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The Serpentine Draft

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Well if they got rid of size/weight limits and that whole ship after 6 weeks thing I would be happy.

Honestly one thing I don’t like about this year is no herding, and only scoring one game piece at a time.

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By far the ‘wedge’ rule. Now this is what I call a wedge :stuck_out_tongue:

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These are two of my three least favorite rules. The battery shipping requirements are the last one. That is if you don’t count odd/sarcastic Q&A answers as rules, if you do, well… then there are a few more.

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we joked around with the no herding rule… we called it the 868 rule (we usually try to do everything at once… i.e. stacking 4 to 5 tetras at once). i think if they didn’t have that rule, we’d probably grab 6 or 7… and go at it :rolleyes: but, since its not legal…

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no herding
and the fact that almost every thing results in a DQ of the team, almost makes it hard to play good defense…almost

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new battery…i have a lot of batteries i cannot use anymore on the field

also im not too keen on this “signal light”, am I the only one who loved that big heavy light? that used to be awesome, and heavy, but mainly awesome

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I have a suggestion. Let’s all step away from this thread for a few months, build some robots, go to some competitions, and then come back and use this thread to develop some good comments and feedback for the team forums… Only after we’ve seen all the rules in action and see how they work. Instead of guessing about how things in the future would’ve been better with different rules, or declaring our dislike for a rule because we heard someone say something about some part of it.

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whatever, dude… I want to use some electic solinoid actuators! lol. pnumatics are just more trouble than it’s worth for a small latch. And It doesn’t help that IFI fresh ran out of HS-322HD servos!

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Can we still complain about the battery rule in the mean time? There’s still a little part of me hoping that something will change in the next week. :wink:

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I’m gonna say the whole rule set of size vs. weight. I would have loved a 150lb robot with a much larger playing size so we could use the original team ideas. The six weeks is also something of a damper:p

Chris

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Dislike the rules? FIRST has never made a rule that was pointless or that was crazy…Except maybe shipping the control board on ship date.

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If I had to select a least favorite rule it would be the Fixit Window. There was talk last year about a rage against dogmatic rules, but nothing came of that. So, I’m trying hard to become comfortably numb and let others ponder the absurdity of rules.

Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer

“Integrity has no need of rules.”

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) English politician

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

Sessue Hayakawa (1889-1973) Japanese actor

“Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!”

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) U.S. actress

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”

Tyler Durden (1963-) Fictional character

“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.”

Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) English historian

“Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.”

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde) Irish author and playwright

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”

Jeopardy! (1984-) U.S. game show

“Remember to phrase your answer in the form of a question.”

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<G35>

Haha, just kidding everyone. And if you dont get the joke you havent been in FIRST long enough.

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I think the Height/weight rule is my least favorite this rule, but hey…it makes things more interesting:D .

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Jan - Mar is my least favorite time of year to do robotics. Weather is usually rainy (I know I can’t complain too much being here in NorCal) and my ability to commit time is limited. Oh, summer time…

I guess time of year is not really a rule, so I’ll choose the flag holder rule. I liked the big dome lights from '03 and earlier.