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Originally Posted by xSAWxBLADEx
WOW....THATS HARSH....i would be the first one to say i want a blue banner but im also the first (maybe second) one on chief delphi telling rookie teams (even some vetern teams) there designs wont work and how they could change it....i just think that comment was very unneeded and just totally against every thing Dean Kamen wants for his program of F.I.R.S.T.
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I'm pretty sure you're taking his quote out of context. Consider a team that doesn't post on Chief Delphi (like 80-90% of FRC teams) and creates a robot with what many would consider a flawed design. There is no way they would know it was a flawed design until the competition, where other teams would exploit the design to its advantage.
E.g. A team only powers two wheels and uses two casters in place of wheels. Your bot has more pushing force than it. In the competition, will you push it around while it's trying to block you? Or will you gingerly avoid trying to "explot" the flaw?
Now, if said team were to make a post on Chief Delphi about its design and/or ask local teams to help with the design, he would almost surely oblige.
Sorry if I am answering for Andrew... but FWIW 2415 is a very GP team from my personal experience.