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Unread 24-02-2011, 11:08
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Re: A lot of good loking robots

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Originally Posted by BrianT103 View Post
This is by far the most "perfectly competitive" game that FIRST has created.
At the end of the day, this is a drivers game.
I agree -- which kind of sucks.
I thought this was an engineering challenge not a driver's challenge.

I don't see a lot of separation between teams at the elite level. I guess we'll train our drivers like crazy and hope our opponents screw up at a critical moment.

Of course we'll try to give them every edge possible with the robot via continuous improvement... but I'm not seeing that as providing any more than incremental gains. Very balanced indeed... Ugh.

-John
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