Forum: Extra Discussion
09-08-2016, 09:53 PM
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Re: paper: Stop the Stop Build
I also want to add that while I do not speak for Collin, I believe he is a former FRC Team Advocate at FIRST HQ and the current president of IndianaFIRST. I imagine he would like whatever we can try...
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Forum: Extra Discussion
09-08-2016, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 98
Views: 10,557
Re: paper: Stop the Stop Build
Yes, because regions are already doing that right now.
16 matches for $5000 still comes out behind districts offering up 24 at the same price. Regionals follow the same schedule template handed...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 09:34 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Districts start inspections on day zero and have practice matches on the morning of day 1. That is a traditional* DCMP schedule.
*Districts with team counts under ~80 run a DCMP like a regular...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 08:54 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Regionals can partially save their poor value proposition by starting qual matches Thursday after lunch. A majority of the personnel required to run those matches are already there, you will just be...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
"Keeping up" is a relative term, best held in the eyes of the beholder. Building two robots to be a competitive program may be a requirement for some of the thousands of teams in areas that have...
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
I guess at the end of the day I find myself still incredibly puzzled by your plea to keep stop build day in place. You discuss how the potential removal of it could negatively affect your team....
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Forum: General Forum
09-08-2016, 01:56 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Our team captain quit his job busing tables from 6pm to 2am on Fridays and Saturdays because a day of school for 6.5 hours-meeting 2.5 hours-work 8 hours-sleep for 6 hours-meeting 9 hours-work 8...
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Forum: General Forum
09-07-2016, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
For an example of this, I recall that 254 loaned HQ their 2014 World Championship robot to be put on display in Manchester. With the knowledge of that paired with the idea that FIRST touts the idea...
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Forum: General Forum
09-07-2016, 02:27 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
It's ok to wait to write things on the internet. Not like the gremlins in the sewer are going to eat your hands before you get time to type something out at a computer. There's also a preview button...
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Forum: General Forum
09-07-2016, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
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Forum: General Forum
09-07-2016, 02:07 PM
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Forum: General Forum
09-07-2016, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Why?
efoote, could you explain how Stop Build Day is supported by the strategic pillars of FIRST (http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/where-is-first-going)?
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Forum: General Forum
09-06-2016, 07:31 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
Nobody knows what the long term effects will be of the ending of the single Championship event either but the alleged benefits have been touted by management and its supporters. The fact that...
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Forum: General Forum
09-06-2016, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 23,746
Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey
On page 25 of this document (page 27 of this PDF) you will find a rule that has already been written that satisfies this need under <R1>. On page 9 of this document (11 on the PDF) you will find...
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Forum: General Forum
09-06-2016, 05:27 PM
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Forum: General Forum
08-31-2016, 09:31 PM
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Views: 5,765
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Forum: General Forum
08-31-2016, 06:03 PM
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Views: 5,765
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Forum: General Forum
08-31-2016, 12:01 PM
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Views: 35,114
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Forum: General Forum
08-25-2016, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 12,934
Re: [FRC BLOG] Bride of 2017 Updates
In academia, a good working definition of a scientific theory is something that is "a broad, natural explanation for a wide range of phenomena. Theories are concise, coherent, systematic, predictive,...
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Forum: General Forum
08-21-2016, 01:50 PM
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-19-2016, 02:14 AM
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Replies: 195
Views: 18,043
Re: Discussion on All-Girl events
Go start a program that is designed to inspire people to become oil drillers, miners, sheetrock layers, etc., have a public internet forum organically spring up from the community it forms, and take...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
07-18-2016, 07:57 PM
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Replies: 195
Views: 18,043
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Forum: General Forum
07-18-2016, 07:54 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 13,709
Re: IRI Alliances
Matt has grown dismissive of the persistent political BS that infects this forum on a daily basis and inflames in the offseason when people with no life outside of robotics spend their days...
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Forum: General Forum
07-18-2016, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 148
Views: 34,578
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