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Originally Posted by BJC
So, yes, the restrictions suck. Is it unfair? Maybe.
However, FIRST does a fabulous job of preparing us students for real life. In "real" life there are restrictions that you might find unneccessary. There are often situations that you find "unfair." Yet with all those times I have yet to find a situation where complaining has solved the problem. Instead, rise above and make do what what you have.
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In the end you have to make a decision. You can make a mini-bot that complies with the rules, or you can not make one at all.
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A perfect example of this. Last year for our rookie test we had 4 mini teams that had to build a robot in one week to navigate a maze. We showed them how the maze was set up and gave them dimensions, but not the real maze. 2 days before their mini competition the got a glimpse at what the real maze looked like, one of the teams builders started to complain that their robot would not turn in the tight corners of the maze and asked me to make the maze larger just for him. We did not change it for him at all and nobody else has a complaint about the field. So needless to say dont change the rules and dont change the field CHANGE YOUR ROBOT because that's the only thing you can truly control.
P.S the student who asked me to change the field did not make our team last year or this year because he argued that is was unfair and unjust, but that's how competition and LIFE works.