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Originally Posted by brian3795
Here in the Dallas area, they do exactly that. So we, a rookie team, dutifully told them "sure, we could use mentors and a veteran team to help." Silence. Absolutely nothing.
Of course, at this point it's rather late to send help. We have fortunately been able to find some very good mentors. We were also fortunate to have a veteran team offer to help us during build day (shoutout to Waxahachie Global HS!), but we never really did receive any non-monetary assistance.
Hear what? The response rate here is certainly faster (and apparently more informative) than requesting a rules clarification via the "official" forum.
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I can't believe that none of the teams in Dallas can spare the time. My first suggestion would be to directly contact teams if you can via phone. Many times a personal request goes further.
We're helping two rookie teams - one is building at our build site and another joins us 1 day a week and we send some of more knowledgable students to them on another day. They're teaching us as much as we're teaching them I think.
In addition, Team 27 (RUSH) and several others run a near-weekly email and call-in where they help rookies with numerous issues that come up.
While I agree about the response time here, that's a direct result of the quality of answer you're likely to get. Q&A have 1/1000th of the people CD does, and Q&A have to research and cross-check every answer they give. Many CD answers are off the cuff, and all of them are non-official, so be careful!